See INCIDENTAL LEARNING.

A student of the early GESTALT PSYCHOLOGISTS who applied some of their thinking to social psychology where he pioneered the field of group dynamics

In ANTHROPOLOGY, the web of family relationships and the BEHAVIOUR associated with them.

See MENTAL AGE.

In SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, this is a way of explaining deviant BEHAVIOUR by focusing on the reactions of other people to the person they label deviant. When combined with SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY, labelling theory has also been used to account for psychotic behaviour. Thus, if a person is labelled PARANOID, everything they do is interpreted in the light of the paranoia and invariably taken as evidence for the correctness of the original diagnosis.

General term for an area of SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY concerned with why people are attracted to each other.

See GAIN-LOSS THEORY OF INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION.

See INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT.

The different approaches people take to the process of learning based on INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES in COGNITION and PERSONALITY.

Medical term for a symptom of the disease rabies in man, meaning literally ‘fear of water’. The fear in this case is not psychologically ABNORMAL but a symptom of the disease.

According to Freud, an UNCONSCIOUS drive, or set of drives, towards the preservation and enhancement of life, whose energy comes from the LIBIDO. Always contrasted with the death instinct.