MASS PSYCHOLOGY
Is the collective term used to describe the range of psychological and emotional processes which occur throughout a population of…
MENTAL HEALTH
is defined by the World Health Organisation as: A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely…
MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING
in the context of psychotherapies, multicultural counselling is a type of therapy which takes into account both racial and ethnic…
NEGATIVE ATTITUDE
in the context of psychotherapy, a negative attitude is the feeling of negativity from the therapist towards the client.
ONE-SIDED MESSAGE
a message consisting of arguments which solely advocate one side of a problem. It is compared with a two-sided message,…
OVERGENERALIZATION
noun. 1. a mental skewing wherein a person sees a sole occurrence as an invariable rule, so that, for instance,…
PASSIVE LISTENING
with regard to psychotherapy and counseling, attentive listening by a counselor or therapy professional without impeding upon or disrupting the…
PERCEPTUAL FIELD
with regard to gestalt psychology, the entirety of the surroundings which someone understands at a specific time- that being, all…
PHENOMENON
noun. 1. a viewable occurrence or physical one. 2. with regard to philosophy, something interpreted by the senses. With regard…
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…
DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION
The extinction of a response by established conditioning while other responses stay the same.
EMOTIONAL CONFLICT
The state of disharmony between incompatible intense emotions such as love and desire.
EXPECTANCY
1. Behavioural psychology. The state where an organism anticipates an event based on previous experience. 2. Cognitive psychology. Mental set…