Quiz Monkey
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Quiz Monkey |
| Term first used in 1897 by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, to describe a condition or malaise in individuals "in which society provides little moral guidance" and which can lead to suicide |
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Anomie |
| Difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic (understanding numbers, how to manipulate numbers, etc.) – the numerical equivalent of dyslexia |
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Dyscalculia |
| A female's infatuation with her father – the female equivalent of the Oedipus complex |
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Electra complex |
| Slip of the tongue, which may reveal a hidden thought |
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Freudian slip |
| Theory proposed 1943 by Abraham Maslow – based on a study of exemplary people |
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Hierarchy of Needs |
| James Braid, 1795–1860, was a pioneer of (Braidism is a term once used for) |
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Hypnotism |
| The part of the subconscious governed by irrational, instinctive forces |
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Id |
| The Stanford–Binet test is a widely–used way of measuring |
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Intelligence (IQ) |
| Psychiatric disorder characterised by a compulsive urge to steal |
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Kleptomania |
| Term (from the Greek for 'great madness') used in popular culture for narcissistic personality disorder – a long–term pattern of abnormal behaviour, characterised by exaggerated feelings of self–importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of understanding of the feelings of other people |
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Megalomania |
| Named after an 18th–century fictional character: the medical condition in which a patient feigns or induces illness, often in someone else such as their child, in order to gain attention or sympathy |
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Munchausen syndrome |
| Eating disorder characterised by an obsession with healthy eating |
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Orthorexia |
| Phenomenon in which hostages come to empathise with their captors (named after a city where employees of a bank were held hostage in 1973) |
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Stockholm Syndrome |
| Rhinotillexomania is an obsessive tendency to |
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Pick one's nose |
| Retifism – named after the French novelist Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734-1806) – is a fetish for |
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Shoes |
| Somnambulism, or noctambulism, is the technical term for |
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Sleepwalking |
| Austrian psychiatrist who first described the inferiority complex |
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Alfred Adler |
| Inventor of 'lateral thinking' |
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Edward de Bono |
| Swiss psychiatrist who popularised the terms introvert and extrovert |
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Carl Jung |
| Founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana State University (later named after him) in 1947; author of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and [ditto] Female (1953) |
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Alfred Kinsey |
| Russian physiologist: discovered "conditional reaction" – reaction conditional on the subject's previous experience – while experimenting on the gastric functions of dogs, around 1900; Nobel prize 1904 |
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Ian Pavlov |
| Swiss philosopher, 1896–1980, famous for his work in child psychology |
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Jean Piaget |
| Ink blot personality test: developed by and named after (Swiss psychiatrist) |
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Hermann Rorschach |
| Technique that assumes the states of parent, adult, and child in each individual |
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Transactional analysis |
| Cards with standard symbols (circle, square, star, cross, wavy lines) – used in experiments for extrasensory perception (ESP), especially clairvoyance – named after the American psychologist who designed them in the early 1930s |
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Zener cards |
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