Hi, my name is Ève Paquette and I have been studying at Ahuntsic College for two and a half years. I study Social Science and my field of study is psychology. I will finish my program this spring. In Social Science, we have sociology, anthropology, politics and psychology courses. All of them contribute at understanding human behaviors in regard to different factors that may influence them. My glossary is a tool that can help people understand some psychology concepts better and be able to enhance their knowledge regarding the terminology on the basics of some theories concerning the human being and mind.
anxiety
noun
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Example: He's been feeling a lot of anxiety about his new job.
en: anxiété
attitude
noun
An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, events, or people.
Example: She took a tough attitude toward other people's indulgences.
en: attitude
attribution
noun
The process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behavior or events.
Example: There was attribution of evil intent to those with different views.
en: attribution
behavior
noun
The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.
Example: His insulting behavior toward me.
en: comportement
bipolar disorder
noun
A mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior.
Example: At age 13, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
en: trouble bipolaire
causality
noun
Causality, or causation, is the relation between an event and a second event, where the second event is understood as a consequence of the first.
Example: Scientists found no causality between the events.
en: causalité
cognition
noun
Te mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Example: The main constraint for all these tasks today is cognition.
en: cognition
depression
noun
Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
Example: Physical ills were miserable, but this depression was unbearable.
en: dépression
dissociative disorder
noun
A personality disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of identity, memory, or consciousness.
Example: Three doctors have given different diagnoses, ranging from acute stress to dissociative disorder to full-scale nervous breakdown.
en: trouble dissociatif
emotion
noun
An affective state of consciousness in witch joy, sorrow, fear, hate is experienced.
Example: She was overcome with emotion at the news of her friend’s death.
en: émotion
empathy
noun
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Example: He felt great empathy with the poor.
en: empathie
ideal self
noun
An evolving construct which represents the goals and aspirations of an individual.
Example: The path from the actual to the ideal self passes through anxiety, frustration, and humiliation.
en: soi idéal
internalize
verb
Make attitudes or behavior part of one’s nature by learning or unconscious assimilation.
Example: In the process, he internalizes his parents' flawed attitudes.
en: intérioriser
intrapsychic conflict
noun
An emotional clash of opposition impulses within oneself, for example, of the id versus the ego or the ego versus the superego.
Example: This could lead him to develop an intrapsychic conflict over hard work witch starts to tear him apart.
en: conflit intrapsychique
memory
noun
The process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
Example: The happiness of those times is still vivid in my memory.
en: mémoire
mental health
noun
Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well.
Example: This sort of lifestyle can damage your mental health.
en: santé mentale
mental illness
noun
Any of various disorders in which a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behaviour are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself, herself, or other people.
Example: He was suffering from mental illness caused by the disease.
en: maladie mentale
psychosis
noun
A severe mental condition in which thought and emotions are so affected that contact is lost with external reality.
Example: The patient suffers from some kind of psychosis.
en: psychose
self-esteem
noun
Confidence in one’s own worth or abilities; self-respect.
Example: She has very low self-esteem.
en: estime de soi
social identity
noun
The portion of an individual’s self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group.
Example: Jane's social identity could be; Woman in terms of gender identity.