10 Temmuz 2013 Çarşamba

Dictionary of Psychology: M

Macropsia. Visual perception that objects are larger than they really are.
Mania. disease characterized by mood and mental hyperactivity fund joy, euphoria and frenetic activity, they do not have any real motivation.
Manic-depressive psychosis. mental condition characterized by alternating manic and depressive phases. 
Manifest content. The individuals remember and / or consciously relates a dream, a fantasy or his thoughts and emotions.
Marijuana. popular name extract a part of cannabis, produces euphoria and a feeling of floating.
Masochism. psychosexual disorder in which sexual arousal is achieved through the physical pain or the humiliation inflicted and / or requested by a partner to another.
Masturbation. Self-excitation of the erogenous zones until the climax.
Defense mechanism. automatic psychological process that protects the individual from anxiety and awareness of threats or external or internal dangers. Defense mechanisms mediate the individual's reaction to emotional conflicts and external threats. Several defense mechanisms (eg., Projection, dichotomization, and "acting out") are almost always maladaptive. Others, such as suppression and denial, may be maladaptive or adaptive depending on its severity, inflexibility and the context in which they occur.
Agonist drug. extrinsic Chemical substances produced endogenously acting on a receptor and is able to produce the maximum effect that can be achieved by stimulating the receptor. A partial agonist is only able to produce less than maximum effect, although administered in sufficient concentration to bind to all available receivers. to bind to all available receivers.
Drug agonist / antagonist. extrinsic Chemical substances produced endogenously acting on a family of receptors (such as opioid receptors), so that is an agonist or partial agonist for a type of receptor antagonist and from another.
Antagonist drug. Chemical extrinsic to endogenously produced substances that occupies a receptor, produces no physiologic effects, and prevents endogenous and exogenous chemical factors produce any effect on this receptor.
Meditation. mental process through which the subject reaches its deepest self.
Megalomania. feeling of power and superiority that has no factual basis.
Identical Twins. are those derived from the same zygote and therefore have the same genetic structure.
Memory. mental capacity to retain and recall what has been lived. Very complex psychological phenomenon which come into play psychism (sensations leave traces in nerve tissue), higher nervous activity (creation of new nerve connections by repetition, ie conditioned reflexes) and the conceptual system or intelligence proper. Specifically human activity behaves as the last image recognition and past.
Menarche. onset of menstruation.
Menopause. Cessation of menses.
Menstruation. cyclic bleeding occurs in sexually mature women.
Mesamorfo. According W. Sheldon, corporeal type active and energetic.
Mescaline. alkaloid derived from the peyote cactus peyoti or capable of producing significant toxic disorders, especially hallucinatory.
Experimental method. is a method for collecting data which are compared with measurements of the behavior of a control group, at least with the experimental measurements of a group at least.
Micropsia. Visual perception that objects are smaller than they really are.
Fear. emotional reaction against a hazard recognized as such in consciousness.
Morphine. Principal alkaloid extracted from opium; has therapeutic properties, especially as an analgesic and spasmolytic. It is also a drug.
Motivation. assembly motifs involved in elective act according to their origin the reasons may be of a physiological and innate (hunger, sleep) or social, the latter are acquired during socialization, formed on the basis of interpersonal relationships, values , norms and social institutions.
Reason. A motive is an inner state budget of an organism, in order to explain their choices and goal-oriented behavior. From the subjective point of view, is a desire or longing.
Stereotyped movements. repetitive motor behavior, seemingly impulsive and non-functional (eg., hands shaking or moving, balancing the body, head banging, nibbling objects automorderse, prick the skin or body orifices, hitting own body) .
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. abrupt and spontaneous are in the position of the eyeballs during sleep.These displacements occur both in the vertical and horizontal, and resemble what actually happens when the individual provides a real event with his eyes open.
Mutism. Inability to speak no injuries caused by the vocal cords.

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