Flashcards: Psychological concepts

Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context.

A need is something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life.

An idée fixe is a preoccupation of mind believed to be firmly resistant to any attempt to modify it, a fixation.

Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behavior.

Debriefing is a process of: 1.

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself that includes elements such as academic performance, gender roles, sexuality, and racial identity.

Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or exert oneself.

In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

In physiology, a stimulus (plural stimuli) is a detectable change in the internal or external environment.

Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations.

Egocentrism is the inability to differentiate between self and other.

A lie is a statement that the stating party believes to be false and that is made with the intention to deceive.

Body image is a person's perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.

Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be of events.

In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive towards death and self-destruction.

A double bind is an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, and one message negates the other.

In psychology, frustration is a common emotional response to opposition.

Separation anxiety disorder (SAD), is a psychological condition in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment (e.g. a parent, caregiver, significant other or siblings).

Facilitation in business, organizational development (OD), and in consensus decision-making refers to the process of designing and running a successful meeting.

The principle of individuation, or principium individuationis, describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.

The dark triad is a subject in psychology that focuses on three personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

Escapism is the avoidance of unpleasant, boring, arduous, scary, or banal aspects of daily life.

Carnism is a concept used in discussions of humanity's relation to animals, defined as a prevailing ideology that conditions people to support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat.

Bullying is abusive social interaction between peers which can include aggression, harassment, and violence.