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Psychology
The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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caffeine
Psychology; General psychology
Tonic stimulant of the central nervous system and heart. Enhances brain activity, but its abuse causes cardiac arrhythmia, insomnia and cephalea.
cleptomanía
Psychology; General psychology
Disorder regarding impulse control, characterized by a pathological tendency to steal objects that, subsequently, are not used for any practical purpose.
synesthesia
Psychology; General psychology
State in which a sensory experience stimulates another type of sensory experience (p. eg., a sound produces the sensation of a particular color).
latency stage
Psychology; General psychology
According to Freud, stage of child development in which sexuality remains more or less dormant. It extends from age seven through adolescence.
behavior
Psychology; General psychology
The object of study of psychology, that is, anything that an organism does. When we study the behavior on a biological level, we are interested in the topography of that behavior, ...
paranoia
Psychology; General psychology
interpretative delusion that evolves in a progressive manner, with an apparently perfect logic and without intellectual deterioration. Its rare that paranoia will establish in ...
cocaine
Psychology; General psychology
Stimulant that comes from the coca plant, evergreen shrub from South America. From there comes the coca paste or cocaine hydrochloride, a white powder that acts as a CNS ...
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- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)