Psychology 101: Misc Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Behavior Modification | The application of behavioral theory to change a specific behavior |
| Burnout | Changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of extended job stress and unrewarded repetition of duties. Burnout is seen as extreme dissatisfaction, pessimism, lowered job satisfacation, and a desire to quit. |
| Coercive Power | Power derived through the ability to punish. |
| Crowding | The psychological and physiological response to the belief that there are too many people in a specified area. |
| Crystallized Intelligence | The part of intelligence which involves the acquisition, as opposed to the use, of information. |
| Etiology | Casual relationships of diseases; theories regarding how the specific disease or disorder began. |
| Expert power | Power derived through advanced knowledge or experirence in a particular subject. |
| External Locus of Control | The belief that the environment has more control over life circumstances than the individual does. |
| Freud, Sigmund | Dr. Freud is often referred to as teh father of clinical psychology. His extensive theory of personality development (psychoanalytical theory) is the cornerstone for modern psychological thought and consists of (1) the psychosexual stages of development, (2) the structural model of personality (id, ego, superego), and (3) levels of consciousness (conscious, subconscious, and unconscious). See Psychoanalysis. |
| Internal Locus of Control | The belief that an individual has more control over life circumstances than the environment does. |
| Legitimate Power | Power derived through one's position, such as a police officer or elected official. |
| Locus of Control | A belief about the amount of control a person has over situations in their life. |
| Norm | An expectation based on multiple observations. |
| Objective Techniques | A generic term for the psychological procedures used to measure personality which rely on measurable or objective techniques such as the MMPI-2 and WAIS-III. |
| Plasticity | The ability of the brain, especially in our younger years to compensate for damage. |
| Projection | In Psychoanalytic Theory, the defense mechanism whereby we transfer or project our feelings about one person onto another. |
| Reconstruction | Tendency to fill in the gaps in our memory and often believe these represent true memories |
| Referent Power | Power givent to an individual due to respect and/or desire to be similar to that individual. |
| Reward Power | Power derived through an ability to offer rewards. |
| Self Efficacy | One's belief in his or her own ability. |
| Self Serving Bias | The tendency to assign internal attributes to successes and external factors such to failures. |
| Skinner, B.F. | Considered the father of behavioral therapy. He once stated that with the ability to control a child's environment, he could raise a child to become anything he wanted. |
| Syllogism | Aristotle's theory of reasoning where two true statements are followed by a single logical conclusion. |
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