This glossary can help people find word in the field of psychology.
Attention
noun
Attention is the ability to actively process specific information in the environment while tuning out other details.
Example: Energy efficient design for sustainable solutions requires attention throughout the design process and is very related to architectural solutions.
fr: attention
Behavior
noun
He way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.
Example: The behavior observation data was collected in the fall term, with changes introduced weekly.
fr: comportement
Brain
noun
An organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
Example: Artificial neural networks are electronic devices whose structure resembles the structure of the human brain.
fr: cerveau
Cognitive
adjective
Of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering).
Example: This study is designed to show how personality dispositions and cognitive variables may combine with social norms to influence wife abuse.
fr: cognitif
Emotion
noun
A conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.
Example: I was still overwhelmed by the painting, but I was now aware that I was overwhelmed, and this, somehow, seemed to establish a distance between this emotion and me.
fr: émotion
Individual
noun
A single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.
Example: Ironically, the education and training of landscape architects is directly informed by the professional discourse that embraces logical positivism, the assertion that there is one optimal answer to a design solution by one individual voice.
fr: individuel
Mental
adjective
Specifically : of or relating to the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.
Example: The research examines the effect of architectural and landscape spaces on physical, mental- emotional and spiritual well-being.
fr: mental
Perception
noun
Perception is the sensory experience of the world. It involves both recognizing environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli.
Example: The perceptual process is discussed and it is shown how human perception is specialized for sensing and organizing a middle range of complexity.
fr: perception
Personality
noun
The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
Example: The effect of military experience, Southerness, and alcohol use were mediated by personality and cognitive variables.
fr: personnalité
Psychiatrist
noun
A medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
Example: There's the psychiatrist who has been seeing you and hearing you talk about suicide.
fr: psychiatre
Psychologist
noun
A person who specializes in the study of mind and behavior or in the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychology.
Example: Preparation refers to the ways that either the organisation or the psychologist prepare themselves to work in a culturally safe way with Maori clients.
fr: psychologue
Psychology
noun
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: Different types of training between persons trained in the related mental health fields were found to be significant when measuring their knowledge level of applicable laws in the treatment of individuals in the psychology field.
fr: psychologie
Researching
verb
To study a subject in detail, especially in order to discover new information or reach a new understanding:.
Example: So, for the social researcher there is some danger in being too keen on the subject one is researching, but one would hardly research an area that was not of interest.
fr: recherche
Social
noun and adjective
Of or relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society.
Example: Results were scored using Statistical Package for the social Sciences software.
fr: social
Unconscious
adjective
Done or existing without one realizing.
Example: They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end (storage and retrieval in memory, for example), but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures.
