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Abnormal or excessive excitability with easily triggered anger, annoyance, or impatience.

An irrational reaction compounded of grief, loss of self-esteem, enmity against the rival and and self-criticism.

Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation.

The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person …

A theoretical psychoanalytical system centered around symbols of the unconscious with the unconscious material derived from two sources - the persona…

Systematic study of the body and the use of its static and dynamic position as a means of communication.

Anxiety disorder of persistent and irrational fear of movement following an injury. It is related to perceived disability due to injury and CATASTROP…

Locomotor behavior not involving a steering reaction, but in which there may be a turning random in direction. It includes orthokinesis, the rate of …

Sense of movement of a part of the body, such as movement of fingers, elbows, knees, limbs, or weights.

A principle that learning is facilitated when the learner receives immediate evaluation of learning performance. The concept also hypothesizes that l…

A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the individu…

An acquired cognitive disorder characterized by inattentiveness and the inability to form short term memories. This disorder is frequently associated…

Primarily a patient-reported sensation, complaint or symptom rather than a disease entity.

Psychoanalytic theory begun by Jacques Lacan as a philosophical linguistic re-interpretation of Freud's original teachings (see FREUDIAN THEORY).

A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.

The gradual expansion in complexity and meaning of symbols and sounds as perceived and interpreted by the individual through a maturational and learn…

Tests designed to assess language behavior and abilities. They include tests of vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and functional use of language, e.…

The period from about 5 to 7 years to adolescence when there is an apparent cessation of psychosexual development.

An involuntary expression of merriment and pleasure; it includes the patterned motor responses as well as the inarticulate vocalization.

The function of directing or controlling the actions or attitudes of an individual or group with more or less willing acquiescence of the followers.

Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge.

The course of learning of an individual or a group. It is a measure of performance plotted over time.

A general state of sluggishness, listless, or uninterested, with being tired, and having difficulty concentrating and doing simple tasks. It may be r…

The psychic drive or energy associated with sexual instinct in the broad sense (pleasure and love-object seeking). It may also connote the psychic en…

Ascertaining of deception through detection of emotional disturbance as manifested by changes in physiologic processes usually using a polygraph.

Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of l…

An approach to analyze one’s life within the framework of various circumstances experienced in a given society throughout entirety of life.

Typical way of life or manner of living characteristic of an individual or group. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed)

The deliberate allocation of mental resources to overcome obstacles in goal pursuit when carrying out a task, with listening effort applied more when…

Ability to read and write.