Hi, my name is Florence Poirier and I've been studying Social Science for almost 2 years.Psychology is the scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour. This glossary gives you a small lexical field of psychology. You will learn some important notion defining psychology and you can get a little closer to understanding your own mind. I found some words on the internet and others in my psychology books. Hope you can use those words to understand yourself and others better!
Abraham Harold Maslow
name
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.[2] Maslow was a psychology professor at Alliant International University, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow
analysis
noun
Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.
Example: An analysis of how the traditional values and beliefs of the rural community within George Eliot's Adam Bede create outsiders.
fr: analyse
behavior
noun
The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.
Example: The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes and behavior of Helix Water District residents regarding residential landscape water conservation.
fr: comportement
child psychiatry
noun
Branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders of childhood.
Example: In Annual Progress in child psychiatry and Child Development.
fr: Pédopsychiatrie
cognitive
adjective
Relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)
Example: Cognitive, psychological, social and self management performance components can be affected.
fr: cognitif
cognitive-behavioral therapies
noun
It is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health.CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and behaviors, improving emotional regulation,and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
fr: Thérapies cognitivo-comportementales
consciousness
noun
The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
Example: The dominant theory that Whittle employs in his article is Phenomenology (the study of human experience and consciousness in the every day life) instead of thinking about the monuments as texts that were read in different ways theorists such as Chris Tilley have thought about how people move through the monuments, what they see from different points, how the physical experience of the monument effects its perception and how people perceived the landscape through this.
fr: conscience
human brain
noun
The human brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system.
Example: The theory starts with one simple mechanism - the competition between memes to get into human brains and be passed on again - and from this it gives rise to explanation for such diverse phenomena as the evolution of the enormous human brain, the origins of language, human altruism, sex, religion, and even the evolution of the internet (Blackmore, 1999).
fr: cerveau humain
intervention
noun
An intervention is the act of inserting one thing between others, like a person trying to help.
Example: With this in mind, further research should be undertaken to refine possible intervention measures that may improve the emotional well-being and psychological development of socially rejected children.
fr: intervention
mental
noun
Relating to the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Example: So, even if she had decided to engage in a lawsuit, the compensation could have been a pretty small amount which was insufficient to recover Mrs Donoghue's harm, her physical illness and mental impact.
fr: mental
mental health
noun
It is a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being
Example: Not only will exercise aid weight loss, but regular physical activity throughout life is associated with better physical and mental health and well-being.
fr: santé mentale
personality
noun
The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
Example: Certain personality traits are particularly vulnerable to coercion.
fr: personnalité
psychiatry
noun
The study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior.
Example: Towards the end of the 1950s, psychiatry had reached a prestigious peak in America.
fr: psychiatrie
psychic
noun
Elating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance.
Example: He dulled his psychic pain with gin.
fr: psychique
psychoanalysis
noun
It is a system of psychological theory and therapy which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
Example: Popper used it to show that Freud's psychoanalysis was non-science because any behaviour could be explained by the theory and so there could be no refutation.
fr: psychanalyse
psychology
noun
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: According to Kolind (the leader of Oticon Holding A S)'s opinion, Oticon needed breakthroughs and breakthroughs require combining technology with audiology, psychology and imagination.
fr: psychologie
Sigmund Freud
name
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.In founding psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory.
Example: Sigmund Freud proposed that children need their parents to fulfill their basic needs such as hunger and thirst as they are unable to do so, and this is the only role the caregivers play.
fr: Sigmund Freud
social worker
noun
Work carried out by trained personnel with the aim of alleviating the conditions of those in need of help or welfare.
Example: There are further debates, which show the effectiveness of placing an Education social worker within the school.
fr: travailleur social
stimulus
noun
It is an agent (such as an environmental change) that directly influences the activity of a living organism or one of it parts (as by exciting a sensory organ or evoking muscular contraction or glandular secretion)
Example: I would contest that it is entirely plausible that an external object could be a stimulus but, that the human interpretation of that stimulus could be unique and that agent not able to know the object as a 'thing in itself'.
fr: stimulus
unconsciousness
noun
The state of being uninformed or unaware.
Example: The teacher's unconsciousness during the hearing meant his her presence was effectively negated and therefore the panel, prima facie, could not hear Y's case adequately in accordance with her natural justice right.
