Psychology

Eric C. (United States of America)
Words relating to the study of and science of psychology.
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  1. psychology
    the science of mental life
  2. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  3. theory
    a belief that can guide behavior
  4. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
  5. experiment
    the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
  6. personality
    the complex of attributes that characterize an individual
  7. psychiatry
    the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
  8. psychiatrist
    a specialist in the treatment of mental disorders
  9. psychologist
    a specialist in the science of mental life
  10. analyze
    break down into components or essential features
  11. describe
    give a statement representing something
  12. explain
    make plain and comprehensible
  13. predict
    make a guess about what will happen in the future
  14. influence
    a power to affect persons or events
  15. trait
    a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
  16. control
    power to direct or determine
  17. stimulus
    any information or event that acts to arouse action
  18. variable
    something that is likely to change
  19. result
    something that follows as a consequence
  20. conclusion
    a position or opinion reached after consideration
  21. method
    a way of doing something, especially a systematic way
  22. scientific
    consistent with systematic study of the physical world
  23. dependent variable
    a quantity whose value depends on another quantity
  24. independent variable
    a value that does not depend on changes in other values
  25. mean
    denote or connote
  26. median
    relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
  27. mode
    how something is done or how it happens
  28. sample
    a small part intended as representative of the whole
  29. random sample
    a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected
  30. stratified
    deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
  31. placebo
    an innocuous or inert medication
  32. development
    a process in which something passes to a different stage
  33. imprinting
    a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
  34. reflex
    an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
  35. instinct
    inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to stimuli
  36. behavior
    the way a person acts toward other people
  37. learn
    gain knowledge or skills
  38. memory
    the cognitive process whereby past experience is remembered
  39. language
    a means of communicating by the use of sounds or symbols
  40. synapse
    the junction between two neurons
  41. sensory
    relating to or concerned in sensation
  42. reward
    compensation for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
  43. punishment
    the act of imposing a penalty
  44. reinforcement
    an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
  45. conditioning
    a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment
  46. fear
    an emotion in anticipation of some specific pain or danger
  47. phobia
    an anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear
  48. psychosis
    severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost
  49. abnormal
    not typical or usual or regular
Created on Wed Sep 26 14:31:12 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Oct 09 11:38:35 EDT 2012)

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