Psychology
Hi, I'm Sathusa Balakrishnan, a student studying Social Science Psychology. This list of words is made to assist students interested in becoming psychologists to understand mental health vocabulary. The definitions are straightforward and come from Google. The glossary contains 20 important terms from the psychology section of the book "Actively Engaged Online" by Nicholas Walker. I recommend that you explore each of the 20 terms concepts in psychology. Understanding these terms can benefit you in your future studies.
- anxiety
- Noun
- Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure.
- Example: We are seeing more calls related to anxiety and depression.
- en: Anxiété
- attitude
- Noun
- A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior.
- Example: She took a tough attitude toward other people's indulgences.
- en: Attitude
- behavior
- noun
- The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others.
- Example: In times of crisis, companies tend to fall back on their habitual patterns of behavior.
- en: Comportement
- bipolar disorder
- noun
- A mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration.
- Example: Helena Tao relies on a regimen of five pills a day to deal with the extreme mood swings brought on by her bipolar disorder.
- en: Trouble bipolaire
- butterfly effect
- noun phrase
- Rests on the notion that the world is deeply interconnected, such that one small occurrence can influence a much larger complex system.
- Example: The dramedy about an autistic teenager who decides that he wants to start dating, and the butterfly effect it has on his long-suffering family, was not a game changer.
- en: Effet papillon
- cognition
- noun
- The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
- Example: A concussion impaired the patient's cognition.
- en: Cognition
- cognitive dissonance
- noun phrase
- Occurs when a person's behavior and beliefs do not complement each other or when they hold two contradictory beliefs.
- Example: When the school holds a ceremony honoring the soldiers who killed her Arab brethren, she suffers clear cognitive dissonance.
- en: Dissonance cognitive
- consolability
- noun
- Can be distracted or reassured by physical comfort (e.g. touching and hugging) or with conversation.
- Example: Some family members were not consolable
- en: Consolabilité
- discrimination
- noun
- Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
- Example: There should be no discrimination on the grounds of colour.
- en: Discrimination
- emotion
- noun
- A complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral and physiological elements.
- Example: Fear is an emotion which we all feel at some time in our lives.
- en: Émotion
- empathy
- noun
- The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- Example: He felt great empathy with the poor.
- en: Empathie
- frustration
- noun
- The feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of inability to change or achieve something.
- Example: These bureaucratic delays have been causing us a lot of frustration.
- en: Frustration
- illness
- noun
- A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind.
- Example: He's suffering from a minor illness.
- en: maladie
- mental health
- noun phrase
- A person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
- Example: All this pressure seems to be affecting his mental health.
- en: Santé mentale
- psychologist
- noun
- An expert or specialist in psychology.
- Example: I recommended he see a psychologist.
- en: Psychologue
- psychology
- noun
- Scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals.
- Example: The results show that people with a moral life are more healthy from the viewpoint of phycology.
- en: Psychologie
- social norm
- noun phrase
- Socially accepted rules of behaviour and conduct which are prescribed by society and expected of an individual by that society.
- Example: As a society we have allowed ourselves (and younger people in particular) to experience being under the influence of alcohol as a social norm.
- en: Norme sociale
- stress
- noun
- A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
- Example: How we react when we feel under pressure or threatened.
- en: Stresser
- stuttering
- noun
- Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder characterized externally by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words, or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds.
- Example: He spoke with a pronounced stutter. I was trembling so hard, I thought I would stutter when I spoke.
- en: Bégaiement
- therapy
- noun
- The treatment of mental conditions by verbal communication and interaction.
- Example: The therapy helps the patient to deal with difficult relationships.
- en: Thérapie
