Terminology

·         Repression : Unconsciously excluding unpleasant thoughts from awareness. Preventing ego threatening ideas from returning to consciousness. A primary defense mechanism.

·         Regression : Going back to an earlier, sally less adequate, mode of response. In hypnosis behaving as one did at an earlier stage of life.

·         Sublimation : Satisfying a motive indirectly but in a socially acceptable manner.Considerd as a defense mechanism. 

·         Suppression : Conscious inhibition of an activity, as when Some one suppresses a desire to strike some one else. (repression is unconscious )

·         Vocational guidance : Providing opportunities, through testing,counselling,and interviews, for an individual to discover fields of work most suited to his intelligence, aptitudes, interests and other personal traits.

·         Unconditioned response : An original or inborn response, such as salivation stimulated by food in the mouth, or withdrawal from an injurious stimuli.

·         Transference : In psycho analysis, situation in which the patient transfers to the therapist feelings and behaviour is appropriate to significant other persons in the patients life. Eg.The patient response to the therapists as though the therapist were his father, fiancé or teacher.

·         Sociopath disorder : A disorder in which the person fails to observe rules which govern conduct in his society.

·         Aptitude : A predisposition to react in a certain way; a readiness to react, a determining tendency. 

·         E S P : Perception which allegedly occur with out sensory awarness, such as communication between two individuals when there appear to be no channels of information exchange.

·         I d : A Freudian term representing the primitive, animalistic urges which underline much behavior.

·         Gifted : Person with special talents, with an IQ above 130.

·         Habit : A recurring acquired mode of behaviour,such as a motor or verbal skill, a way of doing things or a way of thinking. 

·         Instinct  : A descriptive term for a complex un learned adaptive response, an un learned pattern of reflexes appearing in all members of a species. 

·         Oedipus complex : A Freudian term representing the sexual attachment of a son for his mother, sally regarded as repressed & disguised in various ways.  Also it is assumed that the son will be jealous of the father because the father can have intimacies with the mother that the son is denied.

·         Electra complex : A Freudian term representing the erotic attachment of a daughter to his father, with accompanying jealousy of the mother. This attachment may be repressed & disguised in various ways.

·         Psycho analysis : A system of understanding human behavior based on Freud’s writings. Emphasis is placed upon unconscious pious determinants of behavior. 

·         R E M : Quick movement of the eye during sleep, often occurring in series, as measured by sensitive electrodes. Subjects awakened during REM periods usually reports that they have dreaming.

·         Reasoning : Solving some problem implicitly, sing symbols to represents objects or solutions. Thinking one's way through a problem rather than engaging in overt trial & error. 

·         Subconscious  : Literally what is below the level of awarness.It refers to a hypothetical region of the mind which serve as a repository of repressed and other experiences which, while influencing behavior in important ways, seldom come in to consciousness (awareness)
Experience which really come in to awareness are said to be in the pre conscious. Unconscious _ referring that which we are not aware at the moment.

·         Ego : The individuals conceptions of himself. In psychoanalysis the part of personality which as an outcome of experience, retain the expressions of the Id and deals with the demands of the external environment.

·         Super ego : Generally, internal controls or standards. Super ego is derived from early influences. Super ego is one of the 3 chief intra psychic forces in the Freudian view, the others are

·         Reinforcement : Reduction or satisfaction of a drive ; reward. Anything which increase the probability of a response.

·         Recognition : Perceiving some thing as having been experienced before, as being familiar.

·         Projection : Attributing one' own motives or thoughts to others.

·         Motivation : Inner influences or behavior as represented by physiological conditions ,interestes, attitudes & aspirations.

·         Illusion : A perception considered as mistaken because it does not agree with the objective measurement of the physical form or pattern, which is regarded as fundamental. 

·         Hallucination : A false perception generally regarded as abnormal.

·         Frustration    : A state of the organism which results when the satisfaction of the motivated behavior is rendered difficult or impossible.

·         Feeling : Affective experience represented by the individual as  pleasantness, excitements calmness, happiness etc.

·         Deja vu : The feeling that a new situation is familiar _ that one has" been there" before.

·         Compensation : Counter balancing some change, such as lowering of temperature or some defect, such as feeling of inferiority.

·         Cognition  : A general term indicating knowledge & awareness, it include perceiving, remembering, reasoning and other means of knowing about oneself and environment.

·         Aggression : Hostility which may involves actual attack, physical or verbal upon other people.