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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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chunking
Psychology; General psychology
The process of taking single items of information and recoding them on the basis of similarity or some other organizing principle.
reasoning
Psychology; General psychology
The process of thinking in which conclusions are drawn from a set of facts; thinking directed toward a given goal or objective.
perception
Psychology; General psychology
The processes that organize information in the sensory image and interpret it as having been produced by properties of objects or events in the external, three-dimensional world.
perceptual organization
Psychology; General psychology
The processes that put sensory information together to give the perception of a coherent scene over the whole visual field.
libido
Psychology; General psychology
The psychic energy that drives individuals toward sensual pleasures of all types, especially sexual ones.
dream analysis
Psychology; General psychology
The psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams used to gain insight into a person's unconscious motives or conflicts.
psychological dependence
Psychology; General psychology
The psychological need or craving for a drug.
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)