20 Social Sciences with the psychology field of study terms
Anxiety
noun
An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness .
Example: I have anxiety when I have an exam.
es: Anxiété
Attitude
noun
An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, events, or people.
Example: Sometimes people have bad attitude.
es: Attitude
Behavior
noun
The way in which one acts or conducts oneself toward others .
Example: Sometimes, my niece don't have a good behavior.
es: Comportement
bipolar disorder
noun
A mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior .
Example: My patient has a bipolar disorder.
es: Trouble bipolaire
cognition
noun
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses .
Example: implications for child language acquisition.
es: cognition
cognitive psychology
noun
The study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity and thinking .
Example: cognitive psychology is fascinating because you learn language use.
es: Psychologie cognitive
dependance
noun
The real need of the organism, or something that individuals can not provide for themselves .
Example: If you take pain medication, you can develop a dependence.
es: dépendance
emotion
noun
An affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate is experienced .
Example: When I went to see my psychologist, my emotions were really hard to deal with.
es: émotion
frustration
noun
The feeling of being upset or annoyed because of an inability to change or achieve something .
Example: When I make a mistake, I feel frustration.
es: Frustration
illness
noun
A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind .
Example: Mental illness is real and valid, nobody is safe from it.
es: maladie
mental
noun
Involving the mind or an intellectual process .
Example: My mental health is in danger
es: mental
mental disability
noun
A mental anomaly that causes either suffering or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life, and which is not developmentally or socially normative .
Example: I have a mental disability
es: Trouble mental
mental distress
noun
A range of symptoms and experiences of a person’s internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary.
Example: I'm in mental distress.
es: Détresse mental
mental health
noun
Psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary demands of life .
Example: My mental health is pretty great right now.
es: 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: I suffer from mental illness, I need to see a psychologist.
es: Maladie mentale
narcissism
noun
it is used to describe a person characterized by egotism, vanity, pride, or selfishness.
Example: Narcissism is when you only talk about yourself.
es: Narcissisme
observation
noun
The action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information .
Example: My mother is sick, the doctors putted her under observation.
es: observation
paranoia
noun
A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system .
Example: My patient has delusion, he suffers from paranoia
es: paranoia
Phobia
noun
An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something .