Psychology Glossary
Psychology Glossary
Hi, my name is Salma Karoudi I'm 19 years old. I study at Montmorency College in Laval in Social Sciences to become a psychologist in the future. Social Sciences are a study about human in they relationship with family, friend or a couple. In Social Sciences the human in society it very improtant. This glossary is for all the people who want to know more about my program.
- alexithymia
- The inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions.
- Example: It when someone can't have feeling.
- en: Alexithymie
- Amniocentesis
- The sampling of amniotic fluid using a hollow needle inserted into the uterus, to screen for developmental abnormalities in a fetus.
- Example: It the liquid that a woman have when she has a baby.
- en: Amniocentèse
- Amotivation
- Amotivation, also known as avolition, is a psychological condition defined as “a reduction in the motivation to initiate or persist in goal-directed behavior”... Extrinsic motivation is to do something for a separable, tangible reward.
- en: Amotivation
- Androgyny
- Psychological androgyny is an attributional term used to describe an individual who possesses similar (high) levels of stereotypical “feminine” and “masculine” psychological attributes or characteristics.
- Example: It went someone had the characteristic of a man and a woman.
- en: Androgynie
- Anxiety
- Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. People with anxiety disorders usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns. They may avoid certain situations out of worry.
- en: Anxiété
- art therapy
- A form of psychotherapy involving the encouragement of free self-expression through painting, drawing, or modeling, used as a remedial activity or an aid to diagnosis.
- Example: It's when someone tries to express their feelings in drawing.
- en: Art-thérapie
- Depression
- Depression is a common mental disorder characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-esteem, disturbed sleep or appetite, feeling tired and from a lack of concentration.
- en: Dépression
- Dyslexia
- Dyslexia is a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding). Also called reading disability, dyslexia affects areas of the brain that process language.
- Example: Learning disability
- en: Dyslexie
- Fontanel
- A space between the bones of the skull in an infant or fetus, where ossification is not complete and the sutures not fully formed. The main one is between the frontal and parietal bones.
- Example: It the space in the head of the baby. The bones of the skull become harder.
- en: Fontanelle
- male menopause
- Male menopause, known clinically as late-onset hypogonadism, refers to a drop in testosterone levels, which sometimes occurs as men age. Although all women experience menopause (a significant decline of estrogen) as they age, only a small number of aging men have male menopause.
- Example: It likes females menopause but for the man.
- en: Andropause
- Metacognition
- Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.
- Example: Function of the brain that helps to understand it's mental processes.
- en: Métacognition
- Nagativism
- Negativism is commonly seen in toddlers. Negativism is doing the opposite of what others want and is closely related to autonomy: the toddler wants to do things by herself/himself.
- Example: It went kid want to have independence, and he stars to say no to everything.
- en: Nagativisme
- Phobia
- An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
- en: Phobie
- Phonemes
- A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word. For instance, the /s/ in ‘soar’ distinguishes it from /r/ in ‘roar’, as it becomes different from ‘soar’ in pronunciation as well as meaning.
- Example: Smallest unit of its language usually a vowel or consonant.
- en: Phonème
- Psychology
- The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
- en: Psychologie
- Psychotherapy
- The treatment of mental disorder by psychological rather than medical means.
- en: Psychothérapie
- Reflex
- A reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus.[1][2] A reflex is made possible by neural pathways called reflex arcs which can act on an impulse before that impulse reaches the brain. The reflex is then an automatic response to a stimulus that does not receive or need conscious thought
- Example: Auto reply
- en: Réflexe
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects less than one percent of the U.S. population. When schizophrenia is active, symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, trouble with thinking and lack of motivation.
- Example: It went someone ear voice in his head .
- en: Schizophrénie
- syntax
- The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
- Example: It went a baby can say a sentence alone with no error.
- en: Syntaxe
- Transductive
- Unlike deductive or inductive reasoning (general to specific, or specific to general), transductive reasoning refers to when a child reasons from specific to specific, drawing a relationship between two separate events that are otherwise unrelated.
- Example: It's when a child knows that events are binding.
- en: Transduction