Psychology

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• abnormal behaviour

  abnormal behaviours are actions that are unexpected and often evaluated negatively because they differ from typical or usual behaviour.
• abundant research (adj. phr)

  a substantial body of studies and investigations that provide extensive data and insights on a particular topic.
• acculturation strategy

  acculturation is broadly defined as a process of cultural and psychological change that occurs when two cultural groups interact.
• action schema

  an action schema is a representation of a frequently performed, stereotyped, sequence of actions that abstracts over the specific actions while maintaining their common elements.
• Adlerian therapy

  Adlerian theory purports that humans are social beings and therefore all behavior is socially embedded and has social meaning.
• adolescence

  adolescence is the period of transition between childhood and adulthood.
• adolescence sexuality

  adolescent sexuality is influenced by many factors, including your gender identity, sexual orientation, the culture you live in, and how your body develops.
• adolescent

  adolescents are a distinct group, no longer children but not yet adults, and as such have unique needs. working in adolescent psychology means considering the specific needs of someone whose brain has developed past the childhood stage but has not fully matured into adulthood.
• adolescent egocentrism

  adolescent egocentrism is characterized by excessive self-consciousness.
• aetiology

  aetiology refers to the factors or causes that are responsible for, or related to, the development of disorders.
• African personality

  the African personality theory is one of the frameworks that can be used to understand the human personality. similar to several personality frameworks from the global south, this theory emphasizes the interrelatedness between a person and their community.
• agonist

  agonists are substances that bind to synaptic receptors and increase the effect of the neurotransmitter.
• agreeableness

  agreeableness is a personality trait that describes a person's ability to put others needs before their own.
• albinism

  albinism is an inherited condition that leads to someone having very light skin, hair, and eyes. it happens because they have less melanin than usual in their body. melanin gives skin, hair, and eyes their colour.
• allele

  an allele is one of two or more versions of dna sequence (a single base or a segment of bases) at a given genomic location.
• ambivalent attachment style

  ambivalent attachment is a form of insecure attachment characterized by inconsistent responses of the caregivers and by the child's feelings of anxiety and preoccupation about the caregiver's availability.
• amniocentesis

  amniocentesis (also called amnio) is a prenatal test that takes amniotic fluid from around your baby in the uterus.
• anaemia

  anemia is a condition in which the body does not have enough healthy red blood cells. red blood cells provide oxygen to body tissues.
• anal stage

  in Freudian psychoanalytic theory, it is the period in a child’s psychosexual development during which the child’s main concerns are with the processes of elimination. the anal stage, generally the second and third years of life, is held to be significant for the child’s later development because the acquisition of bowel control is presumed to be connected to other forms of self-control, such as cleanliness and orderliness.
• analytical psychology

  analytical psychology is a theory of human personality and thought that takes into account the individual unconscious and its relationship to the collective unconscious.
• androgen

  an androgen, or male sex hormone, is defined as a substance capable of developing and maintaining masculine characteristics in reproductive tissues (notably the genital tract, secondary sexual characteristics, and fertility) and contributing to the anabolic status of somatic tissues.
• anhedonia

  anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure. it's a common symptom of depression as well as other mental health disorders.
• anima

  the anima makes up the totality of the unconscious feminine psychological qualities that a man possesses and the animus the masculine ones
• animus

  the archetype that represents the masculine part of a woman’s personality.
• anonymity

  providing anonymity of information collected from research participants means that the project does not collect identifying information of individual persons.