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Psychology and some Definition

Hi everyone! As you know, my field of study is psychology. First of all, psychology is the study of mind and behavior. Psychology search to understand individuals and groups with principles. There is some definition very important in psychology, feel free to read and use them.

Anxiety

definition: An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a repressed conflit is about to emerge into consciousness.

Emotion

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

Empathy

definition: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Ethnocentrism

definition: Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.

Frustration

definition: The feeling of being upset or annoyed because of an inability to change or achieve something.

Halo effect

definition: The halo effect is a type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a person influences how we feel and think about his or her character.

Humanistic Psychology

definition: Humanism is a psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving.

Hypermnesia

         definition: Exceptionally exact or vivid memory, especially as associated with certain mental illnesses.

Ideal self

definition: An evolving construct which represents the goals and aspirations of an individual.

Illness         
         definition: A disease of period of sickness affecting the body or mind.
Mental health
         definition: Psychological well-being and satisfactory.
Mental distress
         definition: 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.
Mind

         definition: The part or faculty of a person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines: studying the relation between the brain and the mind.

Narcissism
        definition: Excessive preoccupation with or admiration of oneself.
Neurotic
        definition: Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis. No longer used in psychiatric diagnosis.
Nonverbal communication
       definition: The process of communication through sending and receiving visual cues between people.
Observation
       definition: The action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information.
Outcome
       definition: Something that follows from an action, dispute, situation, etc; result.
Personality
        definition:  The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.
Phobia
         definition: An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Placebo
          definition: A simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition.
Prejudice
           definition: An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
Psychoanalysis
           definition: A method of studying the mind and treating mental and emotional disorders based on investigating the role of the unconscious mind.
Psychology
           definition: The scientific of study of all forms of human and animal behaviour, sometimes concerned with the methods through which behaviour can be modified.
Stereotype
           definition: Believing that people of a certain group, race or religion all have the same characteristics when they don't.

source:

• http://psychology.about.com/
• http://www.simplypsychology.org/
• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

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