Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.
Aggression
100
Impulsivity mixed with inattention and/or hyperactivity.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
100
Drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders.
Antidepressant drugs
200
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
Self serving bias
200
A generalized belief about a group of people.
Stereotype
200
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation.
Phobia
200
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Resistance
300
According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier Psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
Fixation
300
Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Conformity.
300
An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
300
In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting of supposed dream meanings and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Interpretation
400
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Defense mechanisms
400
A condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it.
Equity
400
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.
Schizophrenia.
400
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
Psychotherapy
500
In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Free association
500
Unselfish regard for the welfare of others.
Altruism
500
A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common.
Mania
500
A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.