Vocab- General Psychology Flashcards
The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another.
Aggression
From the Latin “to know,” the study of the origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations, and other mental processes.
Cognitive
Characteristic ways of responding to stress.
Coping
The defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self (funeral service psychology outline).
Denial
Redirection of emotion to other targets.
Displacement
An unconscious, irrational means used by the ego to defend against anxiety.
Ego Defense Mechanisms
The outward expression or display of mood or feeling states.
Emotion
Feelings such as happiness, anger or grief, created by brain patterns and accompanied by bodily changes (funeral service psychology outline).
Emotions
The process that initiates, directs, and sustains behavior satisfying physiological or psychological needs.
Motivation
A relatively stable system of determining tendencies within an individual.
Personality
Negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race or membership in a particular group.
Prejudice
Attribution of one’s unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else.
Projection
A medical doctor with a specialty in the diagnosis in humans and/or animals.
Psychology
Supplying a logical, rational, socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action.
Rationalization
A defense mechanism used to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping (funeral service psychology outline).
Regression
