Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Psychology Glossary

                              



Anxiety
          An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a                       repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness.

Egocentricism
          An inability on the part of a child to see any point of view other than his or her own.

Emotion
           An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate is experienced.

Illness
           A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind.

Intrapsychic conflict
          An emotional clash of opposing impulses within oneself, for example, of the id versus           the ego or the ego versus the superego.

Memory
          A process in which information is encoded, stored and retrieved.

Mental health
          A psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary             demands of life.

Mind
          The element of a person that enables them to think and to feel.

Observation
          The action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain           information.

Paranoia
           A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy,             or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system.

Personality
          The sum total of all the behavioral and mental characteristics by means of which an               individual is recognized as being unique.

Prejudice
          An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought               or reason.

Psychology
          A scientific study of human mind and its functions.

Self-esteem
          The confidence in one's own worth or abilities ; self-respect.

Stereotype
          Believing that people of a certain group, race or religion all have the same                             characteristics when they don't.







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