| self assessment (psychology) | Appraisal of one's own personal qualities or traits. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| self psychology | Psychoanalytic theory focusing on interpretation of behaviour in reference to self. This elaboration of the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and the self, was developed by heinz kohut, and stresses the importance of the self-awareness of excessive needs for approval and self-gratification. (12 Dec 1998) |
| humanistic psychology | An existential approach to psychology which emphasizes humans' uniqueness, subjectivity, and capacity for psychological growth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| set (psychology) | Readiness to think or respond in a predetermined way when confronted with a problem or stimulus situation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| signal detection (psychology) | A theory of psychophysics which characterises not only the acuity of an individual's discrimination but also the psychological factors that bias his judgment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| subjective psychology | The study of one's own mind and its various modes of action as a basis for psychologic deductions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| depth psychology | The psychology of the unconscious, especially in contrast with older (19th century) academic psychology dealing only with conscious mentation; sometimes used synonymously with psychoanalysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| developmental psychology | The study of the psychological, physiological, and behavioural changes in an organism that occur from birth to old age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic psychology | A psychologic approach that concerns itself with the causes of behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| individual psychology | A theory of human behaviour emphasizing humans' social nature, strivings for mastery, and drive to overcome, by compensation, feelings of inferiority. Synonym: adlerian psychoanalysis, adlerian psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial psychology | The application of the principles of psychology to problems in business and industry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| objective psychology | Psychology as studied by observation of the behaviour and mental functions in others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| educational psychology | The application of psychology to education, especially to problems of teaching and learning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transfer (psychology) | Change in learning in one situation due to prior learning in another situation. The transfer can be positive (with second learning improved by first) or negative (where the reverse holds). (12 Dec 1998) |
| environmental psychology | The study and application by behavioural scientists and architects of how changes in physical space and related physical stimuli impact upon the behaviour of individuals. See: personal space. (05 Mar 2000) |