by Bill Lauritzen
(for experimental use only)
General
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 = people-study
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
Cognition = Mind-Processes
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
Evolutionary Psychology
innate = in-born
instinct = in-born
hereditary = in-born
heredity = in-born-ness
environment = surrounding
nature vs. nurture = in-born vs. learned
Behaviorism = Do-ism
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
Experiments and Statistics = Trys and Number-Facts
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
Sensation and Perception = In-Putting or In-Taking
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
Memory
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 =