Abreaction. 's discharge or release of emotional tension associated with an idea, conflict or repressed unpleasant memory, this is achieved again reliving painful emotional experience.
Abstinence syndrome. assembly of signs and symptoms that occur after a dependency exist in physical or / and mental towards drug use and stop abruptly.
Apulia. Apathy and lack of willpower which includes inability to take their own initiatives.
Boredom. emotional state of dissatisfaction within an existence that, during that period, is perceived as dull and pointless.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is an organic molecule whose structure has the shape of a "double helix" or helix. DNA molecules are the basic units from which the genes are formed.
Acrophobia. Phobia high places.
Attitude. predisposition of the individual to respond in a certain way to a stimulus after evaluate it positively or negatively.
Adaptation. State in which the subject establishes a relationship of balance and lacking in conflict with their social environment.
Adaptation overall syndrome. assembly physical and psychological symptoms that appear negative character when the subject must face a novelty.
Adrenaline. hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, whose function is to increase blood pressure and heart rate frequency.
Aphasia. Alteration of understanding or transmission of ideas through language in any of its forms (reading, writing or talking), due to trauma or disease of the brain centers involved in language.
Affectivity. assembly emotions and feelings that an individual can experience through different living situations.
Affective blockade. Inability to express feelings or emotions, sometimes characterized by a state of stupor.
Affection. observable behavior pattern is the expression of feelings (emotion) subjectively experienced. Sadness, joy and anger are common examples of affection. Its expression is highly variable between different cultures and in each. The mood disorders include the following modalities:
Flattened. absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression.
Blunt. Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression.
Inappropriate. Inconsistency between affective expression and content of the speech or ideation.
Labile. abnormal variability in affect with repeated changes, swift and sudden emotional expression.
Restricted or constricted. slight reduction of the range and intensity of emotional expression.
Affiliation. defensive mechanism in which the individual turns to others for help or support, which means sharing problems without trying to attribute to others.
Hoarseness. inability to produce speech sounds that require the use of the larynx and not due to a central nervous system injury.
Agitation. status concerns or ongoing activity focused no purpose whatsoever.
Psychomotor agitation. Excessive motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension. Usually, the activity is not productive, is repetitive and consists of behaviors such as fast walking, fidgeting, wringing her hands, fondling dresses and inability to sit still.
Agoraphobia. Phobia open or crowded places.
Aggressiveness. emotional state consisting of feelings of hatred and desire to harm another person, animal or object.Aggression is any behavior intended to hurt physically and / or psychologically someone.
Passive aggression. defensive mechanism in which the individual is aggressive towards others indirectly and non-assertive.There is an open outer mask of submission to others, behind which actually hides resistance, resentment and covert hostility.
Emotional isolation. 's the part of the individual separation of ideas and feelings originally associated with them. It departs from the affective component associated with a particular idea (eg., Traumatic event), but remains attached to its cognitive elements (eg., Descriptive details).
Alcoholism. assembly physical and psychological disorders caused by excessive and continuous consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Alpha waves. brain waves recorded on an EEG, are high and slow, and occur when the subject is at rest, eyes closed but not asleep.
Alogia. Impoverishment of thought that is inferred from the observation of language and verbal behavior. Can be observed and complete brief responses to questions, as well as restricting the amount of spontaneous speech (poverty of speech).Sometimes the speech is adequate quantitatively, but includes little information by being overly concrete, too abstract, repetitive or stereotyped (poverty of content).
Altruism. specifically human attitude in which the main interest is focused on achieving the good of others before our own to meet the needs of others. Unlike the self-sacrifice sometimes characteristic of reaction formation, the individual gets a reward (eg., Thank responses of others with this attitude).
Hallucination. sensory perception that has the compelling sense of reality of a true perception but that occurs without external stimulation of the sense organ involved. Hallucinations should be distinguished from illusions, in which a stimulus is perceived or actual extemal misinterpreted. The subject may have or not have consciousness that is experiencing a hallucination. A person with auditory hallucinations may recognize that is having a false sensory experience, while another may be convinced that the cause of sensory experience has an independent physical reality. Here are some types of hallucinations:
Hearing. hallucination involving the perception of sounds, voices more often. Some clinicians and researchers did not include the experiences that are perceived as originating inside the head and limit the concept of true auditory hallucinations to those sounds whose source is perceived as external.
Taste. hallucination involving the perception of taste (usually unpleasant).
Olfactory. Alucinación involving odor perception, for example, burning rubber or rotten fish.
Somatic. hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience localized within the body (such as a feeling of electricity). Somatic hallucination should be distinguished from certain physical sensations arising from a medical illness not yet diagnosed, a hypochondriacal preoccupation with normal physical sensations and tactile hallucination.
Touch. hallucination involving the perception of being touched or to have something under the skin itself. The most common tactile hallucinations are sensations of electric shocks and tingling (a feeling that something is moving or crawling under the skin).
Visual. hallucination involving structured view images, for example, some people, informal images, such as flashes of light. Visual hallucinations should be distinguished from illusions, which are misperceptions of real external stimuli.
Hallucinogens. additives are substances that can cause sensory disturbances, affecting the emotions and thought. They can produce illusions and hallucinations (see or feel something that does not exist in reality).
Environmental Psychology. part of applied psychology that studies the effects of man on the environment and vice versa.
Environment. vital space in which the subject develops. Set of stimuli that influence the individual from the moment of conception.
Ambivalence. Conflict motivational, which occurs when the subject is simultaneously attracted and repelled by the same goal or desire.
Amnesia. Partial or total loss of memory. May be due to emotional or organic causes, or a combination of both. There are two types of amnesia:
Anterograde. related memory loss events that occurred after the action of the etiological agent.
Retrograde. loss of memory about events that occurred before the action of the etiological agent.
Love intense emotional feeling that is experienced at another person, you can be the opposite sex or not.
Amok. Occurs in the island of Java and Indonesia, is a disorder in which the individual, after suffering a strong social embarrassment (usually occurs in men), starts running incessantly destroying everything in its path, even killing the animals and the people they encounter on their way.
Anal stage. According to Freud, the period between the second and third year of age in which the child focuses his interest in sphincter control.
Factor Analysis. Factor analysis is a statistical tool designed to identify groups of correlated items if standardized psychological tests. Each of these groups or clusters of related items is called a factor.
Anasognosia. disease that usually occurs when trauma damages the right brain and the left side paralyzed body. In some cases the patient sees his arm paralyzed but believes that moves. If you are asked to tie the shoelaces, it will try to do with one hand and obviously you can not finish the job.
Andropause. Cessation or decreased, sometimes only temporary, sexual activity in man.
Amphetamine. Chemical derivative and potent central nervous system stimulant. Decreases appetite and causes a state of subjective well with delaying the onset of fatigue. In excessive doses appears restlessness, insomnia, irritability and verbiage. They have a great power of addiction and create a high dependence.
Anguish. A state of high emotional arousal that contains a feeling of fear or apprehension. Clinically, it is defined as a fear reaction to a vague and unknown danger. It is also used as a synonym for anxiety or to refer to the most extreme expression of this.
Anorexia nervosa. psychiatric syndrome that focuses on the patient's refusal to eat, leading to an alarming weight loss. It usually occurs in young, unmarried women between the ages of puberty and adolescence.
Anxiety. Afraid anticipated to suffer future harm or misfortune, accompanied by a feeling of fear or somatic symptoms of tension.
Anxiogenic. factor that generates anxiety.
Anxiolytic. drug that lowers anxiety and disappear.
Anticipation. The individual faces emotional conflicts and threats to internal or external experiencing emotional reactions before they both occur or anticipating their consequences, possible future events and considering a realistic answers or workarounds.
Antidepressant. drug that elevates mood tone and is used to combat depression.
Anthropomorphism. 's the tendency to attribute human characteristics to plants, animals or objects.
Apathy. Impassibility mood. State in which the subject is indifferent, and has an inability to react to situations that should arouse emotions or interests.
Apathy of the beholder. behavior is a social phenomenon by which the observer of a situation where a person is in trouble, shows little or no interest in helping her.
Applied Psychology. branch of psychology that focuses on the study of conflict and practical problems, dealing with various areas of activity, in connection with other sciences such as pedagogy or linguistics (psycholinguistics).
Learning. 's a permanent change in the behavior of the person as a result of experience. Refers to the change in behavior or potential behavior of a subject in a given situation, as a result of repeated experiences in that situation. This behavioral change can not be explained on the basis of innate response tendencies of the individual, maturation, or temporary states (such as fatigue, alcohol intoxication, impulses, etc..).
Cognitive learning. Active process by which the subject changes its behavior, giving a personal touch to lessons.
Avoidance learning. Conduct by which one attempts, through preventive action, to stop unpleasant or painful stimulus announced by a sign.
Learning to escape. Conduct by which a subject attempts, through action, to stop unpleasant or painful stimulus.
Incidental learning. Incidental learning is produced in an unintended and effortlessly.
Latent learning. Behavior modification that occurs without any apparent reason. It is manifested in the act, but is deduced by subsequent conduct.
Observational learning. learning That which an organism copies or imitates the behavior of another. Also called modeling .
Verbal learning. 's learning that occurs when the content acquired by the subject consists of words, nonsense syllables, or concepts.
Fitness. 's ability to leverage all teaching, training or experience in a particular field of performance.
Archetype. According to Carl Jung , innate image or impression that all people have in common. He lives in the collective mentality unconscious and equivalent to the concept of instinct in animals.
Association. mental process by which an idea is spontaneously associated to another.
Free Association. technique used in psychoanalysis to explore the unconscious psychic life of the patient. It tells me to talk about everything that comes to mind during the session, regardless of logical consistency or moral content, sexual or aggressive.
Aspiration level. Goal that the subject himself is set to perform a particular task.
Asthenia. Lack of energy organic weakness.
Asthenic, type. According to E. Kretschmer, constitutional type characterized by thinness, the high altitude and delicacy. One of the fundamental biotypes.
Ataxia. partial or complete loss of voluntary muscle movement coordination.
Attention. Ability to persistently focus on a particular stimulus or activity. A disturbance in attention may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty concentrating on tasks or work.
Athletic type. According to E. Kretschmer, robust constitutional type.
Attribution. In social psychology, a tendency to infer the motivations, traits, intentions and capabilities of others based on observation of their behavior. A more or less automatic tendency to seek explanations for the actions of others.
Autism. mental disorder particularly affects children. The subject is isolated from the environment, turning in on oneself and giving him less and less attention to the reality that surrounds it.
Assertiveness. characteristic behavior that is unique in positive social behavior, which aims to defend a right to reach a goal.
Automatic. dissociation between behavior and consciousness. Joint movements made on an unconscious, the result of habit or association reflects.
Accomplishment. innate tendency to make the most of their talents and potential for contribution to a sense of satisfaction to oneself by the individual.
Autosuggestion. largely unconscious process, by which the subject himself is convinced of something.
Self-observation. mechanism in which the individual reflects on his own thoughts, feelings, motivations and behaviors, and acts accordingly.
Avolition. Inability to initiate goal-directed activities and persist in them. When it is severe enough to be considered pathological, the avolition is pervasive and prevents the subject complete different types of activities (eg., Work, intellectual pursuits, self).
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