Having a memory of something that didn’t actually happen.

According to the American sociologist G.H. Mead, the concept an individual has of how other people expect him or her to behave in a given situation.

Compare with SIGNIFICANT OTHER.

Aroused when a person feels pressured to achieve, and particularly prevalent in people with a high NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT.

More recent term for INSTINCT.

The use of handwriting as a kind of PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE where a person’s handwriting is analysed for whatever it may reveal about his or her PERSONALITY.

The study of the interaction between people and their work environment, particularly their relationship to machines and equipment. As well as PSYCHOLOGY, it draws on anatomy and physiology.

A leading British exponent of BEHAVIOURIST PSYCHOLOGY noted for his contributions to the theory of PERSONALITY and the construction of personality tests. He has been a controversial figure in the debate about RACE and IQ.

From the Latin word for ‘flight’, a fugue is a relatively long period of AMNESIA in which a person leaves his home, forgets his past and goes off to start a new and very different life somewhere else. When the UNCONSCIOUS conflict underlying the amnesia has been dealt with, the person will remember his old life and IDENTITY and forget the period of the fugue.

BEHAVIOUR expected of all the members of a group.

See NORM.

The CONSCIOUS and explicit recollection of something. This form of memory is usually what is lost in amnesia, unlike IMPLICIT MEMORY.