psychological science

Noun
  1. The science of mental life (synset 106145709)
    associated with:
    • habit, use - (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
    • 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
    • behavior, behaviour - (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
    • readiness, set - (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
    • 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, operation, process - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
    • constancy, perceptual 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
    • generalisation, generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization - (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
    • reinforcement, reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus - (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
    • 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
    • functionalism - a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment
    • configurationism, gestalt psychology - (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
    • 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
    • mental strain, nervous strain, strain - (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress
    • stress, tenseness, tension - (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • molecular - relating to simple or elementary organization
    • normal - being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development
    • abnormal - departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development
    • exceptional - deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
    • conditioned, learned - established by conditioning or learning
    • ambiguous - having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
    • proactive - descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently
    • 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)
    is a type of: science, scientific discipline - a particular branch of scientific knowledge
    subtypes:
    same as: psychology

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