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Psychology Terms Glossary: A-V

The document provides definitions and explanations of various psychological concepts and terms, including aspiration level, asthenic type, ataxia, and avolition. It covers different types of learning such as cognitive, incidental, and observational learning, as well as techniques like free association. Additionally, it discusses conditions like asthenia and the effects of substances like barbiturates.

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Psychology Terms Glossary: A-V

The document provides definitions and explanations of various psychological concepts and terms, including aspiration level, asthenic type, ataxia, and avolition. It covers different types of learning such as cognitive, incidental, and observational learning, as well as techniques like free association. Additionally, it discusses conditions like asthenia and the effects of substances like barbiturates.

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A

Aspiration level:
Goal that the subject establishes himself when performing a certain
task.
Asthenic, type:
According to E. Kretschmer, a constitutional type characterized by
thinness, height elevated and delicacy. One of the fundamental
biotypes.
Ataxia:
Partial or complete loss of coordination of voluntary muscle
movement.
Asthenia:
Lack of energy; organic weakness.
Archetype:
According to Carl Jung, an innate image or impression that all people
have in common. It resides in the unconscious collective mentality and
is equivalent to the concept of instinct in animals
Autosuggestion:
Generally unconscious process, by which the subject convinces
himself of something.
Avolition:
Inability to start and persist in directed activities. When is severe
enough to be considered pathological, avolition is widespread and
prevents the subject from completing different types of activities (e.g.,
work, intellectual tasks, self-care).
Avoidance learning:

Conduct for which an attempt is made, through preventive action, to


stop a unpleasant or painful stimulus, announced by a signal.
Association:
Mental process by which one idea is spontaneously associated with
another.
B
Babbling:
Language disturbance characterized by hesitant and confused speech.
Barbiturate:
Generic name of drugs derived from barbituric acid, strong action
hypnotic.
C
Cognitive learning:

Active process by which the subject modifies his behavior, giving it a


character personal to what has been learned.
F
Fitness:
The ability to take advantage of any teaching, training or experience in
a determined scope of performance.
Free association:
Technique used in psychoanalysis to explore the unconscious psychic
life of the patient. You are told to talk about whatever comes to mind
during the session, without taking into account its logical coherence or
its moral, sexual or aggressive content
Flight learning:

Conduct by which a subject tries, through an action, to stop a unpleasant or


painful stimulus.
I
Incidental learning:

Incidental learning is learning that occurs unintentionally and effortlessly.


L
Learning:

It is a permanent change in the behavior of the person as a result of the experience. It refers to the change
in the behavior or the potential of the behavior of a subject in a given situation, as a product of his
repeated experiences in that situation. situation.
Latent learning:
Modification of behavior that occurs for no apparent reason. I dont
know manifested in the act, but is deduced by subsequent conduct.
O
Observational learning:
That learning in which one organism copies or imitates the behavior of another. Also
called modeling.
V
Verbal learning:
It is the learning that occurs when the content acquired by the subject
It consists of words, nonsense syllables or concepts.

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