Home > Industry/Domain > Psychology
Psychology
The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
6Categories 44717Terms
Add a new termContributors in Psychology
Psychology > General psychology 
emotional intelligence
Psychology; General psychology
Type of intelligence defined as the abilities to perceive, appraise, and express emotions accurately and appropriately, to use emotions to facilitate thinking, to understand and ...
date rape
Psychology; General psychology
Unwanted sexual violation by a social acquaintance in the context of a consensual dating situation.
stress moderator variables
Psychology; General psychology
Variables that change the impact of a stressor on a given type of stress reaction.
language production
Psychology; General psychology
What people say, sign, and write, as well as the processes they go through to produce these messages.
operant extinction
Psychology; General psychology
When a behavior no longer produces predictable consequences, its return to the level of occurrence it had before operant conditioning.
bystander intervention
Psychology; General psychology
Willingness to assist a person in need of help.
cognitive appraisal
Psychology; General psychology
With respect to emotions, the process through which physiological arousal is interpreted with respect to circumstances in the particular setting in which it is being experienced; ...
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)