English > psychology: 1 sense > noun 1, cognitionMeaning | The science of mental life. |
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Synonym | psychological science |
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Category of | Gestalt psychology, configurationism | (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties |
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abience | (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object |
abient | Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal |
abnormal | departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development |
adience | (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object |
adient | Characterized by acceptance or approach |
adjusted | Adjusted to demands of daily living |
ambiguous | Having no intrinsic or objective meaning / meaning |
ambiversion | (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion |
ambiversive | Intermediate between introversive and extroversive |
anima | (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious |
apperceive | perceive in terms of a past experience |
associational | Of or relating to associations / associations or associationism |
associationism, association theory | (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 / sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association |
attentional | Of or relating to attention |
behavior, behaviour | (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation |
breaking point | (psychology) stress / stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial |
clinician | A practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments / experiments |
conditioned, learned | Established by conditioning or learning |
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 |
delusion, psychotic belief | (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary |
double bind | (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma |
exceptional | deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability |
experimenter bias | (psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment / experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment / experiment |
extinguished | Of a conditioned response |
extraversion, extroversion | (psychology) an extroverted disposition |
extroversive, extraversive | directed outward |
extrovert, extravert | (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings |
functionalism | A psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment |
generalization, generalisation, stimulus generalization, stimulus generalisation | (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus |
habit, use | (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation |
idiographic | relating to or involving the study of individuals |
inhibition, suppression | (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires / desires |
internalize, internalise, interiorize, interiorise | incorporate within oneself |
introjected | incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche |
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 |
introversion | (psychology) an introverted disposition |
introversive, introvertive | directed inward |
introvert | (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social / social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts |
isolate | separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them |
law of effect | (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences |
maladjusted | poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living |
molar | pertaining to large units of behavior |
molecular | relating to simple or elementary organization |
nomothetic | relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles |
normal | approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development |
persona, image | (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world |
presentational | Of or relating to a presentation (especially in psychology or philosophy) |
proactive | Descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently |
process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity |
project, externalize, externalise | regard as objective |
psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition | (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic |
rehearsal | (psychology) a form of practice |
reinforcing stimulus, reinforcer, reinforcement | (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens / weakens the behavior that produced it |
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 |
sensitization, sensitisation | (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) |
set, readiness | (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way |
strain, mental strain, nervous strain | (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress |
sublimation | (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable |
tension, tenseness, stress | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense |
unitization, unitisation, chunking | (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units |
Narrower | abnormal psychology, psychopathology | The branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior |
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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 |
comparative psychology, animal psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals |
developmental psychology, genetic psychology, child 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 |
physiological psychology, neuropsychology, psychophysiology | The branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes |
psychometry, psychometrics, psychometrika | Any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements |
social psychology | The branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships / relationships / relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole |
Broader | science, scientific discipline | A particular branch of scientific knowledge |
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Spanish | psicología, sicología |
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Catalan | psicologia |
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Adjectives | psychological | of or relating to or determined by psychology |
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Nouns | psychologist | a scientist trained in psychology |
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