Hi, my name is Amalia Chartrand. I have been studying Social Sciences for 2 years at Lionel-Groulx College. My field of study is Psychology. The glossary that I have made could be useful for people who are interested in Psychology or for students who are studying in this field of study as well. Each word of my glossary are notions and terms that are often used in Psychology. Those words will help people understand what is psychology and the important vocabulary professional use. My glossary counts 20 definitions that I found on the internet and in my English text book. I hope that you will understand a lot more about Psychology after reading my glossary.
anxiety
noun
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Example: She was full of anxiety over the delay.
fr: anxiété
behaviorism
noun
The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
Example: This caution was a major motivator for the initial development of behaviorism.
fr: behaviorisme
cognition
noun
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Example: Scientists were watching the subject's brain waves during cognition.
fr: cognition
flooding
noun
A therapy for phobias in which clients are exposed, with their permission, to the stimuli most frightening to them.
Example: Often this type of therapy is integrated with behavioural therapy, which emphasizes eliminating unwanted behaviors, which have been learnt through classical and operant conditioning, through such techniques as systematic desensitization and flooding.
fr: imploison
hypermnesia
noun
The condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory, especially as associated with certain mental illness.
Example: Evaluating hypnotic memory enhancement (hypermnesia and reminiscence) using multitrial forced recall.
fr: hypermnésie
internalizing
verb
Make (attitudes or behavior) part of one's nature by learning or unconscious assimilation.
Example: She has internalized many of the values of her parents.
fr: internaliser
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: The group is dedicated to eradicating the stigma around mental illness in the Black community.
fr: maladie mentale
neurosis
noun
A class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.
Example: "Wolf-Man" as Pankejeff was later referred to in Freud's case studies, was diagnosed by Freud as having an anxiety neurosis, an animal phobia in early childhood, compulsive feelings complete with obsessive rituals, attacks of furious rage and neurotic sexual conduct.
fr: névrose
paranoia
noun
A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system.
Example: Psychotic symptoms and paranoia persisted, and she continued to "find clues" of conspiracy against her.
fr: paranoïa
phobia
noun
An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Example: He had a phobia about being under water.
fr: phobie
placebo
noun
A simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient.
Example: His Aunt Beatrice had been kept alive on sympathy and placebos for thirty years.
fr: placebo
psychoanalysis
noun
A method for studying the hidden or unconscious processes of the mind as a way of treating mental illness.
Example: In normal psychoanalysis consultations, what is not said can be just as important as what is.
fr: psychanalyse
psychologist
noun
An expert or specialist in psychology.
Example: In addition, Bowlby reviewed data from academic studies describing infants' cognitive and social development including those of the famous and highly regarded child psychologist Piaget.
fr: psychologue
psychosis
noun
A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
Example: They were suffering from a psychosis.
fr: psychose
resilience
noun
Is an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity.
Example: The resilience necessary to cope with a world of accel.
fr: résistance
schizophrenia
noun
A long-term mental disorder involving faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, and withdrawal from reality and social relationships.
Example: Mr has several of the positive features of schizophrenia- Delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thoughts.
fr: schizophrénie
stimulus
noun
Any phenomenon that causes a reaction or response in an organism.
Example: Cork balls have been substituted for ova, which the infundibulum then catches, resulting in eggs that contain cork instead of the yolk showing that the ampule does not have any recognition functions, and responds to any stimulus.
fr: stimulus
stress
noun
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
Example: He's obviously under a lot of stress.
fr: stress
therapy
noun
The treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitative, or curative process.
Example: After years of unproductive therapy Freud believed that the key to Wolf-Man's condition lay in a dream he had just before he was four.
fr: thérapie
withdrawal
noun
Estrangement and isolation from others.
Example: Regarding withdrawal such as "Shyness Disorder", "Adjustment Disorder" and "Introverted Disorder", therefore being withdrawn obviously has psychological disadvantages.
