Psychology

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20 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Psychology.

• Authoritarian Personality — Treat a historically situated social-psychological construct as a measured constellation of conventionalism, authority submission, and authority-sanctioned aggression, while keeping scale design, ideology, context, and contested validity visible.
• Cognitive Load — Mental effort.
• Cognitive Reframing — Deliberately substituting the interpretive lens applied to a fixed situation so that emotional and behavioral responses re-couple to a more adaptive frame.
• Concept Creep — Expand a harm-related concept horizontally to new kinds of cases or vertically to less severe cases, altering its extension, thresholds, and social consequences.
• Curse Of Knowledge — Holding knowledge systematically degrades an agent's ability to simulate the perspective of an agent who lacks it.
• Das–Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System — An individually administered, norm-referenced cognitive battery that operationalizes PASS theory as separate Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive process scales and interprets their profile alongside an overall score.
• Embodied Language Processing — A family of accounts and findings in which language understanding recruits or is shaped by sensorimotor, affective, bodily, and situated systems associated with described referents and actions.
• Empathising–Systemising Theory — A contested psychological theory that profiles separately measured empathising and systemising dimensions, classifies their relative balance, and tests group-average hypotheses about sex-coded samples and autism.
• Fantasy-prone personality — Describe a non-diagnostic disposition toward unusually extensive, vivid, absorbing, and enduring fantasy involvement, assessed through research constructs while keeping reality discrimination, dissociation, suggestibility, trauma accounts, and clinical impairment empirically and conceptually separate.
• Flow State — Enter an absorbed, intrinsically rewarding activity state when challenge matches skill and goals and feedback are clear, causing action and awareness to merge, self-monitoring to recede, and time perception to distort.
• Gratification — The positively valenced satisfaction experienced when a desire, need, or represented goal is fulfilled, functioning as both an affective payoff and a prospective behavioral incentive.
• Looming — The approach-specific sensory pattern in which an object’s expanding projection—often combined with expansion rate—signals decreasing time to contact and recruits collision-sensitive perceptual, neural, and action systems.
• Meaning-making — The psychological and social process of interpreting events in relation to beliefs, goals, identity and narrative so that experience becomes intelligible and consequential.
• Perceived control — A person’s belief about how much influence they can exert over outcomes, behavior, processes or surrounding conditions.
• Personality Change — Detect enduring longitudinal alteration in a person’s characteristic trait level or profile while separating true trait development from rank-order continuity, temporary states, context shifts, and measurement change.
• Reversal Theory — Model motivation and emotion as switches among paired metamotivational states whose active framing reverses the felt meaning of arousal, rules, agency, and relationships.
• Self-deception — A motivated process by which a person sustains a belief or interpretation favorable to desire or identity by selectively attending to, discounting or rationalizing contrary evidence.
• Stereotype Threat — The situational performance drop that occurs when a negative group stereotype is made salient in an evaluative setting, consuming the working-memory capacity the task itself requires.
• Suggestion — A psychological influence process in which presented ideas or cues guide thoughts, feelings or actions with reduced deliberate evaluation.
• Visual Memory — Encoding, retaining, and retrieving visually derived representations across iconic, working-memory, and long-term regimes while preserving selected spatial, feature, object, and scene information.