Psychology Glossary
Psychology Glossary
20 terms
This glossary concerns psychology since it is a field in which I would like to continue my studies because it interests me a lot. Indeed, I would like to go through psychology to become a speech therapist afterwards. So, this glossary could help me and all the others who are starting in this field to better understand it and also start on a good basis.
- anxiety
- Uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might happen in the future.
- behaviour
- Way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially towards others.
- brain
- Organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and activity.
- cognitive
- Mental processes related to thinking, reasoning, and conscious intellectual activity.
- consciousness
- Awareness of internal and external existence.
- depressive disorder (depression)
- Common mental disorder that involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods of time.
- developmental psychology
- Scientific study that examines how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
- emotion
- Conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.
- illness
- Disease of the body or mind.
- memory
- Ability of the mind to store and recall past sensations, thoughts, knowledge, etc.
- neuron
- Nerve cell that carries information between the brain and other parts of the body.
- neuropsychology
- Branch of psychology concerned with how person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
- psychologist
- Person who specializes in the study of mind and behavior or in the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychology.
- psychology
- Scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their behaviour.
- psychotherapy
- To know as talk therapy, it refers to techniques that help people change behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that cause them problems or distress.
- schizophrenia
- Mental illness that is characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, and behavior, by a loss of emotional responsiveness and extreme apathy, and by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life.
- therapy
- Treatment that helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after an illness.
- thought
- Idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind.
- trauma
- Severe and lasting emotional shock and pain caused by an extremely upsetting experience, or a case of such shock happening.
- unconscious mind
- Part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions.