Aggression

Aggression is a term psychologists use to refer to behavior intended to hurt others. Aggression... More >>

Association

Association, in psychology, refers to one theory of how people learn things. The theory's three... More >>

Autism

Autism, AW tihz uhm, is a serious medical disorder that appears in young children and persists... More >>

Behavior

Behavior is the way human beings and other organisms act. Action refers to what organisms do and,... More >>

Body language

Body language is communication by means of facial expressions, gestures, postures, and other... More >>

Brainwashing

Brainwashing is a method of influencing people to change their beliefs and accept as true what... More >>

Catalepsy

Catalepsy, KAT uh lehp see, is a condition in which a person temporarily loses the ability to... More >>

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance, klair VOY uhns, is an awareness of events, objects, or people without the use of... More >>

Counseling

Counseling is the process of helping people to explore and understand personal problems and to... More >>

Delusion

Delusion, dih LOO zhuhn, is a false belief. Persons with mental illness often have delusions. A... More >>

Emotion

Emotion is usually considered to be a feeling about or reaction to certain important events or... More >>

Ergonomics

Ergonomics, ur guh NOM ihks, is the science of designing machines, objects, and environments to... More >>

Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception, abbreviated ESP, describes a way of communicating or of being aware of... More >>

Habit

Habit is something a person learns to do over and over again without thinking about how to do it.... More >>

Hallucination

Hallucination, huh loo suh NAY shuhn, is a mental state in which a person sees, hears, tastes,... More >>