My name is Leggee-Ann and I have been studing in this field for the past three years. This glossary is to help me understand and remember some new vocabulary words from my field.
Abnormal psychology
It's a term in psychology.
The scientific study of unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought that deviate from societal norms and often indicate a mental disorder.
Example: She studied psychology in college because her mom suffered of abnormal psychology.
fr: Psychologie qui peut être anormale.
Alexithymia
noun
Diffilculty recognizing
Example: Her alexithymia made it hard for her to recognized how she felt.
fr: Alexithymie
Anosognosia
noun
A condition where a person is unaware of their own mental or physical disorder.
Example: Due to anosognosia, the patient insisted nothing was wrong despite the symptoms.
fr: Anosognosie
behavior
noun
The way in which someone conducts oneself or behaves
Example: Her behavior is very unique.
fr: comportement
change blindness
its a term
Blinding the subject with something else while doing another thing.
Example: The magician relied on change blindness so the audience wouldn't notice.
fr: cécité du changement.
Clyclothymia
noun
A mood disorder involving chronic fluctuating mood disturbances with periods of hypomania and mild depression.
conditioning
noun
the process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances. ( associated with a stimulus)
Example: link with behaviour modification (BM) and operant CONDITIONING as Skinner found.
fr: conditionnement
neuroticism
noun
Neuroticism is a Big Five personality trait characterized by a chronic tendency to experience negative emotions, such as anxiety, fear, depression, irritability, and anger.
Example: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, NEUROTICISM and Openness. Each item is rated on a psychology
fr: névrosisme
Neurotransmitter
noun
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers used by the nervous system to transmit signals between neurons (nerve cells) or from neurons to muscles and glands.
Example: the synaptic gap. There is sometimes an excess of NEUROTRANSMITTER in the synapse due to the fact th health
fr: Neurotransmetteur
Prosopagnosia
noun
A neurological dissorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces.
Example: She could't recognize her close firends.
fr: Prosopagnosie
psychoanalysis
noun
psychoanalysis is a dept long-term talk therapy
Example: We are going to study the psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud
fr: psychoanalyse
Psychodynamic
noun
Psychodynamic refers to a therapeutic approach and theory emphasizing that human behavior, feelings, and emotions are shaped by unconscious motives, early childhood experiences, and the dynamic, often conflicting interplay of mental forces.
Example: The therapist utilized a psychodynamic approach to help the patient understand how childhood experiences and unconscious conflicts were influencing their current behavior.
fr: Psychodynamique
Psychometrics
noun
the science of measuring mental capacities and processes.
Example: She has worked as a psychometrics instructor.
fr: Psychométrie
psychopathology
noun
Psychopathology is the scientific study of mental disorders, abnormal behaviors, and psychological suffering.
Example: Psychopathology is the study of mental illness
fr: psychopathologie
schema
a noun
A mental structure that organizes knowledge and guides information processing.
Example: Children have develop a schema of what a dog is.
