An approach to psychology which attempts to describe and explain the structure, content, and relationship of conscious and unconscious mental activity, and which is intended to serve as a basis for psychoanalytic therapies.

Synonym of behaviorism

Synonym of behaviorism

A branch of psychology focusing on how and why individuals differ in their behaviour.

The interplay between the individual and society. / The study of how people and groups interact.

Branch of psychology which studies the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals.

(psychology, evolutionary theory) A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.

(idiomatic) A mentally manipulative approach to warfare involving use of techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone into surrender.

the view that the ultimate motive for all voluntary human action is the desire to experience pleasure or to avoid pain

Synonym of Freudian slip