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| abnormal psychology |
the branch of psychology that is concerned with patterns of behavior, thought, and feeling that deviate greatly from average patterns. |
| affect1 |
in psychology, emotion, feeling, or response. [1/4 definitions] |
| animus |
In Jungian psychology, the archetypal masculine element in a woman's psyche. [1/3 definitions] |
| atomism |
in psychology, the theory that all social institutions arise from the acts and interests of individual people. [1/2 definitions] |
| autosuggestion |
in psychology, a technique of changing one's own behavior or beliefs by repeating certain phrases or ideas to oneself. |
| behavioral science |
a social science such as psychology, anthropology, or sociology that examines the way humans act as individuals or in groups, often to reveal recurrent patterns or general truths. |
| behaviorism |
in psychology, the doctrine that observable behavior, rather than mental events or consciousness, gives the only valid evidence for study, and that environmental influences predominate in human psychological development. |
| collective unconscious |
in Jungian psychology, the memories and other psychic contents that are accumulated by the experience of all preceding generations and that dwell within the unconscious mind of each individual. |
| configuration |
in psychology, a gestalt or unified whole. [1/6 definitions] |
| defense mechanism |
in psychology, an unconscious process that submerges or opposes ideas or actions that would be painful or inappropriate. [1/2 definitions] |
| fantasy |
in psychology, an imagined state, event, or sequence of events, usu. acting out or fulfilling a wish; wish fulfillment; daydream. [1/5 definitions] |
| gestalt |
in psychology, a cognitive pattern that is whole and unified and cannot be predicted or inferred from its individual elements, even when they are considered together. |
| ideomotor |
in psychology, of or denoting an unconscious physical motion that is stimulated by an idea. |
| limen |
in physiology or psychology, the threshold of a response. |
| motile |
in psychology, a person whose mental images consist mainly of body motions, rather than sights or sounds. [1/2 definitions] |
| neuropsychology |
the branch of psychology dealing with the relationship between the nervous system and behavior. |
| operant |
in psychology, of or pertaining to a response identifiable by its consequences rather than its specific stimulus. [2/4 definitions] |
| orientation |
in psychology, one's perception of oneself and one's place in relation to other people and one's surroundings. [1/5 definitions] |
| overcompensate |
in psychology, to try to correct a personal fault or personality defect by exaggerated antithetical behavior. [1/3 definitions] |
| persona |
in psychology, the outer personality, façade, or public identity an individual presents to others. |
| project |
in psychology, to attribute one's own thoughts or feelings to someone else. [1/11 definitions] |
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