| psychology | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. psychological science, psychology | the science of mental life. |
| ~ habit, use | (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.; "owls have nocturnal habits"; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it" |
| ~ rehearsal | (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory. |
| ~ inhibition, suppression | (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires. |
| ~ behaviour, behavior | (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation. |
| ~ extraversion, extroversion | (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self. |
| ~ introversion | (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings. |
| ~ ambiversion | (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion. |
| ~ image, persona | (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world.; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" |
| ~ readiness, set | (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way.; "the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution"; "his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set" |
| ~ anima | (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious. |
| ~ double bind | (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful. |
| ~ cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process, operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents.; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering" |
| ~ perceptual constancy, constancy | (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation. |
| ~ chunking, unitisation, unitization | (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units. |
| ~ introjection | (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects. |
| ~ stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization, generalisation, generalization | (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus. |
| ~ reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus, reinforcement | (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it. |
| ~ law of effect | (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated. |
| ~ science, scientific discipline | a particular branch of scientific knowledge.; "the science of genetics" |
| ~ abnormal psychology, psychopathology | the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior. |
| ~ association theory, associationism | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity. |
| ~ atomism | (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association. |
| ~ applied psychology, industrial psychology | any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc.. |
| ~ cognitive psychology | an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes. |
| ~ animal psychology, comparative psychology | the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals. |
| ~ child psychology, developmental psychology, genetic psychology | the branch of psychology that studies the social and mental development of children. |
| ~ differential psychology | the branch of psychology that studies measurable differences between individuals. |
| ~ experimental psychology, psychonomics | the branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to study psychological issues. |
| ~ functionalism | a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment. |
| ~ neuropsychology, physiological psychology, psychophysiology | the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. |
| ~ psychometrics, psychometrika, psychometry | any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements. |
| ~ configurationism, gestalt psychology | (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties. |
| ~ social psychology | the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole. |
| ~ experimenter bias | (psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment. |
| ~ sublimation | (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable. |
| ~ abience | (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object. |
| ~ adience | (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object. |
| ~ clinician | a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments. |
| ~ extravert, extrovert | (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings. |
| ~ introvert | (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts. |
| ~ sensitisation, sensitization | (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations). |
| ~ mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state | (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic.; "a manic state" |
| ~ mental strain, nervous strain, strain | (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress.; "his responsibilities were a constant strain"; "the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him" |
| ~ tension, stress, tenseness | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor" |
| ~ breaking point | (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial. |
| ~ delusion, psychotic belief | (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary. |
| ~ isolate | separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them. |
| ~ externalise, externalize, project | regard as objective. |
| ~ interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalize | incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal.; "internalize a belief" |
| ~ apperceive | perceive in terms of a past experience. |
| ~ adjusted | adjusted to demands of daily living; showing emotional stability. |
| ~ maladjusted | poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living.; "a maladjusted child" |
| ~ extinguished | of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement. |
| ~ introjected | incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche. |
| ~ introversive, introvertive | directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings. |
| ~ extraversive, extroversive | directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality. |
| ~ ambiversive | intermediate between introversive and extroversive. |
| ~ molar | pertaining to large units of behavior.; "such molar problems of personality as the ego functions" |
| ~ molecular | relating to simple or elementary organization.; "proceed by more and more detailed analysis to the molecular facts of perception" |
| ~ normal | being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development.; "a perfectly normal child"; "of normal intelligence"; "the most normal person I've ever met" |
| ~ abnormal | departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development.; "they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality" |
| ~ exceptional | deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence.; "special educational provisions for exceptional children" |
| ~ conditioned, learned | established by conditioning or learning.; "a conditioned response" |
| ~ ambiguous | having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns.; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots" |
| ~ proactive | descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently.; "proactive inhibition"; "proactive interference" |
| ~ retroactive | descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously. |
| ~ idiographic | relating to or involving the study of individuals. |
| ~ nomothetic | relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles. |
| ~ abient | characterized by avoidance or withdrawal. |
| ~ adient | characterized by acceptance or approach. |
| ~ associational | of or relating to associations or associationism. |
| ~ attentional | of or relating to attention. |
| ~ presentational | of or relating to a presentation (especially in psychology or philosophy).; "what Whitehead calls `perception in the presentational immediacy'" |
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