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Psychology Glossary

Psychology glossary

This glossary will help people learn more word in their field related program.

Anxiety
noun
An intense emotional response caused by the preconscious recognition that a repressed conflict is about to emerge into consciousness.
Example: New parents often experience a flood of emotional anxiety when their child is born.
fr: Anxiété
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Behavior
noun
The way in which one acts or conducts oneself toward others.
Example: I'm surprised by her bad behavior toward her friends. She was mean and selfish.
fr: Comportement
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Bipolar disorders
noun
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior.
Example: Bipolar depression or bipolar disorder (sometimes called manic depression) refers to a condition in which people experience two extremes in mood.
fr: Troubles bipolaires
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Child developpement
noun
Child development refers to the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.
Example: The child development is the most important stage, because it will follow him/her throughout is life.
fr: Développement de l'enfant
Cognition
noun
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Example: The parents also noted that the child plays well with his sister when at home so although he may be struggling with appropriate levels of COGNITION for his developmental age, his social skills are developing well which should help enormously with his ability to learn.
fr: Cognition
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Coping
noun
Coping is expending conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress or conflict.
Example: Maybe drinking was his way of coping with the loss of his wife.
fr: Faire face
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Dependance
noun
The real need of the organism, or something that individuals can not provide for themselves.
Example: I have a dependance with alcool. I need to have it.
fr: Dépendance
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Discrimination
noun
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
Example: People from ethnic minorities often face prejudice and discrimination.
fr: Discrimination
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Ideal self
noun
An evolving construct which represents the goals and aspirations of an individual.
Example: We all have an ideal self that we want to become.
fr: Soi idéal
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Mental disability
noun, adj
Mental disability is a mental or behavioral pattern or anomaly that causes either suffering or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life (disability), and which is not developmentally or socially normative. Mental disorders are generally defined by a combination of how a person feels, acts, thinks or perceives.
Example: Physical or mental disability in the child is not, so to speak, a part of the package the parents ordered.
fr: Maladie mentale
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Mental health
noun, adj
Psychological well-being and satisfactory adjustment to society and to the ordinary demands of life.
Example: The stress that I am living at work has a negative effect on my mental health.
fr: Santé mentale
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Phobia
noun
An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Example: I have a phobia of spiders.
fr: Phobie
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Psychoanalysis
noun
A method of studying the mind and treating mental and emotional disorders based on revealing and investigating the role of the unconscious mind.
Example: Such psychologistic interpretations of the unconscious tend, like psychoanalysis itself, to gloss over gender and other social relations.
fr: Psychanalyse
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Resilience
noun
Is an individual's tendency to cope with stress and adversity.
Example: I demonstrated resilience in order to overcome my stress.
fr: Résilience
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Schizophrenia
noun
A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Example: My aunt has schizophrenia, sometimes she can't make the different between reality and fantasy.
fr: Schizophrénie
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Stimulus
noun
Any phenomenon that causes a reaction or response in an organism.
Example: The very act of lying down in bed should provide a strong stimulus for sleep.
fr: Stimulus
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Therapy
noun
The treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitative, or curative process.
Example: Annie is going to therapy because she has been dealing with anorexia for 2 years.
fr: Thérapie
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Unconscious mind
noun
That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware.
Example: Your unconscious mind works out many of your conflicts in dreams, and generally prepares you for the challenges of the day.
fr: Surmoi
Variables
noun
Factors or conditions that affect or may affect the known behavior of an individual or a group.
Example: There is multiples variables that can be the cause of a behavior in someone's life.
fr: Variable
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Welfare
noun
The health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group.
Example: Parents are responsible for the welfare of their children.
fr: Bien-être
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