Home | Psychology of Wellness | Psychology Definitions

Psychology Definitions

A

B

• Abrasive Personality Disorder
• ​Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
• Activity Theory of Aging
• Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder (ATPD)
• Adaptation
• Affective Neuroscience
• Affective Realism
• Alexithymia
• Allostasis
• Allostatic Load
• Analytical Psychology
• Appraisal Theory of Emotion
• Attachment Injury
• Attachment Theory
• Autobiographical Memory
• Awe
• Axis-II Diagnosis

• Basic Needs
• Behavior Activation
• Belongingness
• Big Five Personality Traits
• Bobo Doll Studies
• Brief Psychotic Disorder (BPD)
• Broaden and Build Theory
• Burnout 

---

C

D

• Catastrophic Thinking
• Cluster 'A' Personality Disorders
• Codependency Definition
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Cognitive Heuristics
• Cognitive Reappraisal
• Cognitive Triad
• Coherence
• Compensatory Skills
• Confabulation
• Confirmation Bias
• Conscientiousness
• Continuity Theory of Aging
• Coping Mechanism
• Counterfactual Thinking

• Dark Triad Personalities
• Death Instinct (Death Drive)
• Defense Mechanisms (Psychological Defenses)​
• Degeneration Theory
• Dementia Praecox
• Depressive Personality Disorder
• Depressive Realism
• Detachment (Psychological)
• Developmental Tasks
• Developmental Theory
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Diathesis Stress Model​
• Disengagement Theory
• Displacement (Defense Mechanism)
• Dyadic Regulation

---

E

F

• ​Ego Defense
• Ego Depletion
• Ego Ideal
• Ego Investment
• Emotion Differentiation
• Emotional Abuse
• Emotional Attunement
• Emotional Detachment
• Emotional Flooding
• Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Emotional Guidance System
• Emotional Hijacking
• Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Lability
• Emotional Styles
• Emotional Triggers
• Emotional Valence
• Emotional Validation
• Emotional Wounds
• Emotionally Reactive
• Engulfment
• Epigenetics
• Eudaimonia
• Executive Functions
• Explanatory Style
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy

• Feedback Loops
• Feeling Felt
• ​Flourishing
• Flow State
• Fundamental Attribution Error

---

G

• Gaslighting
• General Adaptation Syndrome
• General Systems Theory*
• Glucocorticoid Cascade Hypothesis

H

• Hope Theory
• Homeostasis
• Humanistic Psychology
• Homunculus

---

I

• Immature Defenses
• Inner Strength
• Insecure Attachment
• Interoception
• Internal Guidance System
• Internal Working Models
• Intimacy
• Ironic Process Theory

J

• James-Lange Theory of Emotion
• Jungian Psychology

---

K

• Kubler-Ross Model

L

• Learned Helplessness
• Life Course Theory
• Life Transitions
• Limbic System
• Logotherapy
• Loss Aversion

---

M

• Maladaptive Behaviors
• Marshmallow Study
• Masochistic Personality
• Mental Maps
• Mental Models
• Mindfulness
• Mindset
• Moods
• Moral Reconation Therapy

N

• Narrative Psychology
• Negative Attribution Style
• Negative Affect
• Negative Sentiment Override
• Negativistic Personality  Disorder
• Neuroticism
• Neuroplasticity 

---

O

• Object Cathexis
• Openness
• Optimism
• Outcome Expectancy
• Overwhelm

P

• Pain Body
• Paranoid Ideation
• Paraphrenia
• Passive Aggressive
• ​Pathological Lying
• Perfectionism
• Person Centered Therapy
• Personal Constructs (Theory)
• Personality
• Personality Disorders​
• Personalization
• Pleasure Principle
• Post Traumatic Growth​
• Prediction Psychology
• Primal World Beliefs
• Primary Needs
• Prisoner's Dilemma 
• Projection
• Pseudologia Fantastica

---

Q

• Quantum Psychology

R

• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
• Reaction Formation
• Realistic Optimism
• Reciprocal Determinism
• Regulatory Focus Theory
• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
• Relationship Anxiety
• Relative Deprivation
• Repair Attempts
• Repressed Anger
• Repression: A Defense Mechanism
• Rigid Thinking
• Role Theory
• Rumination

---

S

T

• ​​Sadist
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• Secure Base
• Securely Attached
• Self Aspects
• Self Blame
• Self-Efficacy
• Self-Esteem
• Self Complexity Theory
• Self Narrative
• Self Schema
• Self-System
• Sensory Overload
• Shattered Assumptions
• Skeptic
• Slippery Slope Fallacy
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Social Desirability Bias​
• Social Learning Theory
• Social Phobia
• Somatic Intelligence
• Splitting: A Defense Mechanism
• Stanford Prison Experiment
• State Trait Anger Theory
• Strength Model of Self Control
• Stress Response Theory
• Sublimation: A Defense Mechanism
• Sunk Costs Fallacy
• Superego
• Systems Theory

• Theory of Mind
• Toxic Environments
• Triggers

---

U

• Unconditional Love
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Unprocessed Trauma

V

• Valence
• Value Theory
• Vulnerability

---

W

• White Bear Principle
• Window of Tolerance
• Wise Mind
• Working Memory

X

• ​Xenophobia Definition

---

Y

• Yerkes-Dodson Law

Z

• Zero-Defects Mentality
• Zero Sum Game

Please support Flourishing Life Society with a share or by visiting a link:

​Other Flourishing Life Society articles of interest on this topic: