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Psycho-Slang
by Bill Lauritzen
psychology
= mind-science or mind-healing or cognitive-science or mind-study
psychologist
= mind-scientist or mind-healer or nerve-healer or mind-studier
psychotherapy
= mind-healing or nerve-healing
psychoanalyst
= past-mind-healer
psychoanalytic
perspective = depth-view
behavioral
psychologist = do-ist or do-scientist or pair-and-shape scientist
behavioral
perspective = do-view
cognitive
perspective = thought-view
cognitive
psychologist = thought-healer or thought-studier
adaptation
= change-fit-copy
socio-cultural
perspective = community-view
society
= people-tools-rules
culture
= people-tools-rules
social
psychology =
sociology
=
trait
= --
personality
= --
biological
perspective = bio-view
intellectual
harassment = making students learn archaic Latin and Greek nomenclature
Psychological
Disorders = Mind-Messes
depression
= down
major
depression = way-down
minor
depression (dysthemia) = mini-down
manic
episode = up-event
bipolar
disorder = roller-coaster
depressants
= downers
stimulants
= uppers
hallucinations
= fake-images
delusions
= fake-ideas
hallucination
= fake-seeing
pseudo-science
= fake-science
dissociative
disorders = splitting disorders
dissociative
amnesia = split-memory
dissociative
fugue = split-flee
dissociative
identity disorder = many-personalities disorder
somatization
= vague-mindmess-to-body
hypochondriasis
= certain-mindmess-to-body
neuropsychological
disorders = body-to-mindmess
insomnia
= no-sleep
etiology
= causes
psychopath
(or sociopath or antisocial personality) = people-harmer
phobia
= junk-fear
social
phobia = people-fear
claustrophobia
= trap-fear
agoraphobia
= crowd-fear
anorexia
nervosa = fat-fear
bulima
nervosa (7) = in-food-out-food (4)
morbid
= unwholesome
concept
= collection of neuro-images into one idea
abstract
= map (v.) mapped (n.)
abstracting
= map-making
abstraction
= map or cognitive map CM
association
= joining or linking (necessary for concepts and ideas and judgments) by time or
space or likeness (energy-mass)
differentiation
= splitting or unlinking or sensing
intelligence
= survivability
imagination
= image-remixing or image-recombination or image-ination
orders
of abstraction = map-levels
latent
= hidden
latent
learning = hidden learning
anthropomorphism
(6) = saying-human-like (5)
structural
differential = CM-model or cognitive-mapping-model
semantics
= meanings
phonics
= sounds
heuristic
= rule-of-thumb
algorithm
= rule-of-logic
empiricism
= try-know
empirical
= try
rationalism
= logic-know
materialism
= matter-energy-ism or energism
epistemology
= knowledge-study
ontology
= be-study
innate
= in-born
instinct
= in-born
hereditary
= in-born
heredity
= in-born-ness
environment
= surrounding
nature
vs. nurture = in-born vs. learned
stimulus
= in-put
response
= out-put
classical
conditioning = reflex pairing
operant
(respondent) conditioning = shaping
extinction
=
generalization
= spreading or in-take-spreading
discrimination
= splitting (of in-take-pairs)
higher-order
conditioning = higher-order-pairing
unconditioned
stimulus = reflex-in
unconditioned
response = reflex-out
conditioned
stimulus = conditioned-in
conditioned
response = conditioned-out
experiment
= try
observation
= see
description
= say
hypothesis
= guess
replication
= re-do
theory
= broad knowledge map or cognitive map or model (CM)
variable
= changeable
correlation
coefficient = link-number
correlation
= link
sense
= in-put
sensations
= in-puts
sensing
= in-putting
senses
= in-putters
sensitivity
=
perceive
= get
perceiving
= getting
perception
= get
cochlea
= snail
ossicles
= middle-ear-bones
frequency
= often (n.)
amplitude
= loudness
audition
= hearing
pinna
= fin
timbre
=
decibels
= ten-i-bels
auditory
canal = ear-canal
eustachian
tube =
vestibular
sense = balance in-take
cornea
= clear-cover
pupil
= eye-hole
iris
= rainbow
accommodation
= far-change
sensory
adaptation = in-take-change
absolute
threshold = smallest-in-take
difference
threshold = difference-in-take
just
noticeable difference (jnd) =
retina
= eye-dish or dish
rods
= grey-cells
cones
= color-cells
lens
= --
dark
adaptation = dark-change
accommodation
= lens-change
transducer
= energy-changer (electromagnetic energy to electrical energy)
receptor
cells = in-take-cells
fovea
= focal-point
neuron
=
axon
=
dendrite
= in-branch
optic
nerve = eye-nerve
synapse
= neuron-gap
peripheral
retina = dish-edge
chromatic
= colorful
achromatic
= no-color
pigments
=
photopigments
= light-coloring
hue
= color
trichromatic
vision = 3-color vision
dichromatic
vision = 2-color vision (color blind)
monochromatic
= 1-color
occipital
lobe = rear-lobe or see-lobe
olfaction
= smell
olfactory
bulbs = smell-bulbs
olfactory
epithelium = smell-tissue
gustation
= taste
tactile
= touch
kinesthetic
= body-motion
endorphins
=
infrared
= below-red
ultraviolet
= beyond-violet
semantic memory =
Physiological
Psychology or Bio-Psychology= Bio-Mind-Study
artery
= blood channel
vein
= blood tube
cortex
= outer or shell
cerebral
cortex = outer-brain
cerebrum
= outer-brain
frontal
cortex or frontal lobe = front-brain
thalamus
= way-station
hypothalamus
= master-regulator
cerebellum
= balance-brain
amygdala
= fear-attack-brain
limbic
system = emotion-brain
aphasia
= no-speech [expressive (out) receptive (in)]
apraxia
= not-do
agnosia
= not-know
brain
lesion = brain hurt
temporal
lobes = temple-lobes
parietal
lobe = rearward-lobe
lateral
= side
posterior
= rear
anterior
= front
hydrocephalus
= water-brain
CT
scan = x-ray structure scan
MRI
= MRI structure scan
PET
scan (positron emission tomography) or = activity scan
fMRI
= structure and activity scan
nootropic
drugs = reason drugs
geriatrics = old-folks healing
hippocampus
= memory-formation area
stroke
= block-channel-brain or burst-channel-brain
motor
cortex = movement-shell
somatosensory
cortex = body-in-take shell
EEG
= brain-wave-graph
alpha
wave = rest-wave
beta
wave = active-wave
delta
wave = deep-sleep-wave
autonomic
nervous system = free-nervous-system
voluntary
or somatic nervous system = directed-nervous-system
sympathetic
nervous system = action-nervous-system
parasympathetic
nervous system = rest-nervous-system
glands
pituitary
gland = master gland
hormones
= harmones
endocrine
system = no-duct system
right
hemisphere = right half
left
hemisphere = left half
adrenal
glands = stress glands
Broco's area = speech-making area
Wernicke’s
area =
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