International Diploma in Psychology

dysfunctional

determinants

forensic

eu‧gen‧ics / judʒenɪks / noun [ uncountable ]

an‧i‧mis‧m / ænəmɪz ə m, ænɪmɪz ə m / noun [ uncountable ]

au‧tis‧m / ɔtɪz ə m / noun [ uncountable ]

As‧per‧ger's syn‧drome / æspɜɡəz sɪndrəʊm $ -pɜrɡərz sɪndroʊm / ( also Asperger's ) noun [ uncountable ]

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related to the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something :
cognitive psychology

1 the science that studies the way in which the bodies of living things work :
a book on biochemistry and physiology

2 the way the body of a person or an animal works → anatomy :
the physiology of the brain

a serious mental illness in which someone’s thoughts and feelings are not based on what is really happening around them. Typical symptoms are hallucinations and delusions.

1 not definite or certain, and may be changed later SYN provisional OPP definite :

"I passed on my tentative conclusions to the doctor. "
"The patient is taking tentative steps towards improving his behaviour!

an‧o‧rex‧i‧a / ænəreksiə / ( also anorexia ner‧vo‧sa / -nɜvəʊsə -nɜrvoʊ- ) noun [ uncountable ]

psy‧cho‧sis / saɪkəʊsəs, saɪkəʊsɪs $ -koʊ- / noun ( plural psychoses / -siz / ) [ uncountable and countable ]

the belief that what you do and what happens to you are caused by things that you cannot control

syn‧drome / sɪndrəʊm $ -droʊm / noun [ countable ]

the belief that the scientific study of the mind should be based only on people’s behaviour, not on what they say about their thoughts and feelings

[ uncountable ] the treatment or examination of someone’s mental problems by talking to them for a long time about their feelings

someone who has a serious and permanent mental illness that makes them behave in a violent or criminal way

de‧lu‧sion / dɪluʒ ə n / noun
[ uncountable and countable ]

par‧a‧noid / pærənɔɪd / adjective

eg: paranoid schizophrenia

im‧ply / ɪmplaɪ / verb ( past tense and past participle implied , present participle implying , third person singular implies ) [ transitive ]

re‧cip‧ro‧cal / rɪsɪprək ə l / adjective formal

a belief or idea of what a particular type of person or thing is like. Often unfair or untrue

an unreasonable dislike and distrust of people who are different from you in some way, especially because of their race, sex, religion etc – used to show disapproval:

when you care about or help other people, even though this brings no advantage to yourself:

phe‧nom‧e‧non /fɪˈnɒmənən, fɪˈnɒmɪnən $ fɪˈnɑːmənɑːn, -nən/

plural phenomena /-nə/) [countable]