| A | B |
|---|
| abnormal psychology | includes neurosis, psychosis, and other mental disordrs |
| acrophobia | fear of high places |
| aggression | behavior that aims to hurt someone or what he stands for |
| amnesia | partila or total loss of memory |
| atavism | reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic |
| behaviorism | doctrine that man reacts automatically, like a machine, to stimuli |
| clairvoyance | alleged ability to see objects or know things beyond the range of the senses |
| compulsion | irresistible impulse to perform an irrational act |
| conditioned reflex | response set off by a second stimulus associated withthe primary stimulus |
| defense mechanism | unconscious adjustment to block out unpleasant memories, feelings or knowledge |
| dissociation | splitting apart of mental elements |
| dualism | state of being twofold |
| Electra complex | daughter's unconscious sexual attachment to father & hostility to her mother |
| empathy | one's participating in the feelings & spirit of another person or thing |
| exhibitionism | behavior to attract attention, self-exposure |
| extrovert | person actively interested in his enviroment & other people rather than in himself |
| fixation | abnormal attachment ot some person, object, or idea |
| gustatory | relating to the sense of taste |
| hysteria | emotional frenzy |
| infantilism | extreme immaturity of mind & body in an adult |
