The Ultimate Psychology Glossary

 

The Ultimate PSYCHOLOGY Glossary

You guys found your way to this ultimate psychology glossary. Before going thru the glossary, I want to do a quick recap, so I am Hibba, I am 18 years old and I have been studying in this field it's been 1 year. The goal of this glossary is firstly to help some students to decide if they want to follow this field or not and secondly to help some people to understand the development of a human brain. This glossary contains twenty terms that will appear frequently in this blog to explain some psychology facts with their definitions. The definitions were found by using the "define" button that led to google search. In the next step those definitions wear sentence cased. It also contains part of speech and a pronunciation model with an audio file using text-to-speech. There is also the translation of the term automatically generated, an image using Wikimedia Commons and finally an exemple generated by Lextutor Concordancer. After reading this glossary you guys will become familiar with psychological terms and will be able to understand this blog much easily.

addiction
noun
The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
Example: For these reasons, the mesolimbic dopamine pathway is simply referred to as the "pleasure centre" by many textbooks and is the circuit most frequently examined in studies of reward and ADDICTION.
en: Addiction
Brain that is addicted by drugs vs a healthy brain
behavior
noun
The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus.
Example: If any of these variables affects helping BEHAVIOR, then the degrees of helpfulness can also vary widely depending on the region where the experiment is conducted.
en: comportement
brain
noun
An organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
Example: The evolution of the enormous human BRAIN.
en: cerveau
Human brain
cerebellum
noun
The part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.
Example: These areas include: the CEREBELLUM, which controls motor coordination.
en: cervelet
Red part represent the cerebellum
cognition
noun
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Example: Both versions consider space and time to be human intuitions, but the stronger version goes on to make a: "negative ontological claim about objects outside our cognition.
en: cognition
consciousness
noun
The fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.
Example: The notion that the augmentation of the infant's CONSCIOUSNESS occurs without external influence.
en: conscience
The brain beign aware of the red square in front
cortex
noun
The outer layer of the cerebrum (the cerebral cortex ), composed of folded gray matter and playing an important role in consciousness.
Example: Bouillard (1796-1881) did not accept most of Gall's theory of phrenology but worked on the notion that there was a 'language centre' in the frontal region of the CORTEX.
en: cortex
A cortex
depression
noun
A mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep.
Example: This as a very dark time and suffered from DEPRESSION for which he did not receive medication.
en: dépression
A woman who is breaking from depression while beign alone
disorder
noun
A disruption of normal physical or mental functions; a disease or abnormal condition.
Example: Neurosis was replaced by new diagnoses of panic DISORDER, generalised anxiety disorder.
en: trouble
Two people with a bipolarity disorder
distress
noun
Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
Example: A psychological disorder can be defined as a dysfunction within an individual that is associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical.
en: distresse
Women who is feeling distressed
nerve impulses
noun
A signal transmitted along a nerve fiber. It consists of a wave of electrical depolarization that reverses the potential difference across the nerve cell membranes.
Example: This ensures the transmission of signals and allows nerve impulses to be propagated to the next neuron.
en: influx nerveux
Nerve impulses beign transmitted
neurology
noun
The branch of medicine or biology that deals with the anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system.
Example: Journal of NEUROLOGY, neurosurgery and psychiatry.
en: neurologique
Brain related (neurology)
neuroplasticity
noun
The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience or following injury.
en: Plasticité cérébrale
An example how that the brain learn after an experience
phobia
noun
An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Example: Until then had never been seen by a Doctor, due to a PHOBIA of healthcare professionals, following a traumatising event during her childhood at the time of her mother's illness and death.
en: phobie
A person suffering from a fear of spiders
pressure
noun
The use of persuasion, influence, or intimidation to make someone do something.
Example: When required to make the decisions under PRESSURE and a meticulous check cannot be made.
en: pression
A person under pressure who dont do what he wants, but what the other person wants
psychiatrist
noun
A medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
Example: With less frequent appointments with a consultant PSYCHIATRIST.
en: psychiatre
Psychologist
noun
An expert or specialist in psychology.
Example: In , was referred to the child psychologist by her teachers.
en: psychologue
A psychologist
self-esteem
noun
Confidence in one's own worth or abilities; self-respect.
Example: If people have a high intelligence scores they will also have a sense of pride, SELF-ESTEEM and a basis of comparison with others.
en: estime en soi
stimulus
noun
A thing that rouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive.
Example: In Jakarta (Indonesia), for example, a stronger STIMULUS might be needed to elicit a positive response for the hurt-leg test.
en: stimulus
trauma
noun
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
Example: In a bid to escape the mental torture and TRAUMA they were in, four prisoners reacted by breaking down emotionally.
en: trauma
Traumatised girl

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  1. eslwithhelenSeptember 30, 2020 at 8:06 AM

    Very cool and dynamic glossary! I love the images you chose to illustrate the words.

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