As mentioned in earlier lesson pages that the
focus of CAT is to test aspirant's
Verbal. logical and reasoning ability. And after reading
this:-
I am asked numerous times, here and on my blog
regarding-
How important is vocabulary for CAT's perspective?
Readers, Test aspirants and even Writers have
different views regarding this. Though no one reject the fact
that having good vocabulary is beneficial.
I want to make it very clear to all my dear
readers that Test doesn't asks you to answer that you aren't
suppose to know. The most of the vocab stuff is taken from the
bank of specialised words that we came across while doing our
graduation (either from Science or Commerce or Arts).
So today we will discuss something about these
specialised terms only.
Psychology Terms
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Abulia: means chronic ability to decide or act independently.
Abuila or Aboulia refers to a lack of will or initiative.
The patient is unable to act or make decisions independently.
It may range in severity from subtle to overwhelming.
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Alienation: means state of estrangement from real world.
In simple words it's the state of one's mind when the one's subject's split apart from its community, society, or world.
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Amentia: Means lower than normal mental development.
This is a situation when the mental growth of an individual is not synchronized with physical growth.
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Mental retardation.
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Lack of development of intellectual capacity as a result of inadequate brain tissue
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Amnesia: means loss of memory, as through hysteria or brain damage.
Another effect of amnesia is the inability to imagine the future.This is because when a normal human being imagines the future, they use their past experiences to construct a possible scenario. For example, a person who would try to imagine what would happen at a party that would occur in the near future would use their past experience at parties to help construct the event.
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Behaviourism: School of psychology emphasissing the study of behaviour or of stimulus(information) and response, rather than of mental processes.
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Binet-Simon scale: Scale in IQ testing. Can be explained as-
An evaluation of the relative mental development of children by a series of psychological tests of intellectual ability. Also called Binet scale, Binet-Simon test, Binet test.
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Configurationism: School emphasissing the indivisibility of various behaviour patterns and psychological experiences.
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Fugue: Means dream-like state in which a person loses his or her memory and often wanders from home.
An expert defined it as:-
Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of work, with inability to recall one's past
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Confusion about personal identity, or the assumption of a new identity, or
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Significant distress or impairment.
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ID: means unconscious and deepest part of the personality, the basis for instinctive and biological drives.
The id doesn't care about reality, about the needs of anyone else, only its own satisfaction. If you think about it, babies are not real considerate of their parents' wishes.They have no care for time, whether their parents are sleeping, relaxing, eating dinner, or bathing. When the id wants something, nothing else is important.
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Imago: means idealised impression of oneself, a parent, or another person, based on an image formed in childhood.
Stereotypes are somewhat related to this.
