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The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of inte…

Self-centered preoccupation or concern regarding one's own needs, abilities, wishes, desires, or preferences.

A visual image which is recalled in accurate detail. It is a sort of projection of an image on a mental screen.

Electrically induced CONVULSIONS primarily used in the treatment of severe AFFECTIVE DISORDERS and SCHIZOPHRENIA.

Induction of a stress reaction in experimental subjects by means of an electrical shock; applies to either convulsive or non-convulsive states.

A maze test in which an animal is placed on the center of elevated platform and is allowed to choose one of four arms configured like a plus sign. An…

Behavior associated with the elimination of feces and urine from the body.

A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.

Organized services to provide immediate psychiatric care to patients with acute psychological disturbances.

Intervention that relies on free expression of emotions with coaching to enhance awareness of emotional experiences.

Psychological process that occurs when an individual adapts to a significant emotional event or stimulus.

Eating behaviors caused by PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS; ANXIETY; BOREDOM; or other negative emotions rather than physical HUNGER.

The ability to understand and manage emotions and to use emotional knowledge to enhance thought and deal effectively with tasks. Components of emotio…

The manifestation of an emotional response by which individuals influence the intensity, duration, valence, or manifestation of their response. Emoti…

Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.

An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is…

Process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions as deigned by the ind…

The field that studies interactions between individuals and the built and natural environment. It includes investigating behaviors that inhibit or fo…

Therapy assisted by the use of a horse and/or its movement, including equine-assisted psychotherapy, horseback riding, and hippotherapy.

The science of designing, building or equipping mechanical devices or artificial environments to the anthropometric, physiological, or psychological …

Innate response elicited by sensory stimuli associated with a threatening situation, or actual confrontation with an enemy.

The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful. It includes beauty, esthetic experience, esthetic judgment, esthetic aspects of me…

Comparative PSYCHOLOGY of different ethnic and cultural groups.

The discipline pertaining to the study of animal behavior.

An exaggerated feeling of physical and emotional well-being not consonant with apparent stimuli or events; usually of psychologic origin, but also se…

Compulsion to pick one's skin.

A set of cognitive functions that controls complex, goal-directed thought and behavior. Executive function involves multiple domains, such as CONCEPT…

Philosophy based on the analysis of the individual's existence in the world which holds that human existence cannot be completely described in scient…

The tendency to explore or investigate a novel environment. It is considered a motivation not clearly distinguishable from curiosity.

A measurement of collective behavior and attitudes that exist towards a specific person—a measurement of the social environment or social relationshi…