Literally, a new word: sometimes found in SCHIZOPHRENIC speech but more often in scientific and scholarly writing where common words are used in a new way. like CENSORSHIP and PROTOCOL, or where new words are concocted, like BRAIN-WASHING and TERRITORIALITY.

A functional psychological disorder with no organic causes whose origins in emotional conflict can often be understood and dealt with by PSYCHOTHERAPY. Neurosis may be manifested as ANXIETY. FUGUE. HYSTERIA. OBSESSION. COMPULSION Or PHOBIA, neurotic BEHAVIOUR suggestive of NEUROSIS.

A mid-nineieenth-century legal ruling that is still widely used in deciding whether a criminal defendant is insane and therefore not responsible for his actions. The ruling states that a person is criminally liable unless his reason was so defective that he did not realise the nature of his action or that it was wrong.

The sense of smell.

A term sometimes used in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY to denote everyday reality as opposed to that of experimental realisim.

See DOWN’S SYNDROME.

TheDISTRIBUTION of data from a RANDOM SAMPLE of the population. When these data are plotted on a graph they show up as a symmetrical BELL-SHAPED CURVE with scores clustered around the average and declining towards either extreme.

Sometimes used to describe a person who is excessively slavish to the demands of authority or the conventions of SOCIAL NORMS.

Used in conditioning as a way of eliminating a given response by punishing it.

A technique developed in the 1970s by Tony Buzan to aid MEMORY, thinking and creativity. It involves a pictorial form of note-taking. radiating out from a central theme and making use of shape and colour.