Psychology Glossary
Psychology Glossary
20 terms
In this glossary, there are some terms of psychology that are more or less technical. I chose to make a glossary about psychology because I've always loved psychology and the human behavior in certain situations. I also study Psychology.
- anorexia nervosa
- A psychiatric disorder characterized by an unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image.
- anxiety
- An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness.
- behavior
- The way in which one acts or conducts oneself toward others.
- butterfly effect
- Notion that an effect or a trivial thing can have serious consequences if it causes an imbalance and causes other changes that create a big upheaval.
- discrimination
- Treating people less fairly because they belong to a different group.
- emotion
- An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate is experienced.
- empathy
- The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- halo effect
- The tendency for an impression created in one area to influence opinion in another area.
- intuition
- The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.
- lucid dreaming
- The view that conscious awareness of dreaming is a learnable skill that can enable dreamers control the direction and content of their dreams.
- memory
- The process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
- mental health
- Psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary demands of life.
- mind
- The human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.
- personality
- The sum total of all the behavioural and mental characteristics by means of which an individual is recognized as being unique.
- phobia
- An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
- placebo effect
- A beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment.
- stereotype
- Believing that people of a certain group, race or religion all have the same characteristics when they don't.
- stress
- A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
- therapy
- The treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitative, or curative process.
- unconscious
- The part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but affects behavior and emotions.