A very easy class that assholes take to pretend they're smart because they take the one honors class that doesn't require any effort to pass if you can memorize your old teacher's anecdotes about how a hypnotized bus driver remembered a license plate number. The teacher will usually not even touch the chapters on neurology, cognition, memory and intelligence because she's lazy, and thus all the students who made 97s in the class by memorzing definitions make 2s on the AP exam because the teacher didn't tell them who BF Skinner is.
Take AP Psychology if you enjoy watching episodes of Frasier and movies where some character has some mental disorder everyday and passing it off as an AP class
by peanutbutterninja May 17, 2008
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Like other religions, it has little scientific support, but makes bold pronouncements about who is "good" and who is "bad."
Its sacred texts include the Diagnostics and Statistics manual as well as works by Rogers, Freud, Beck and others.
Cultish mind control behavior can be found in some practitioners who will attempt to keep "clients" in harmful therapy by convincing them that "you have to feel worse to feel better" or "your resistance represents your unwillingness to face your problems."
Like other religions, it has little scientific support, but makes bold pronouncements about who is "good" and who is "bad."
Its sacred texts include the Diagnostics and Statistics manual as well as works by Rogers, Freud, Beck and others.
Cultish mind control behavior can be found in some practitioners who will attempt to keep "clients" in harmful therapy by convincing them that "you have to feel worse to feel better" or "your resistance represents your unwillingness to face your problems."
Client: "I have been in therapy for four years now, but I'm still depressed and obsessive compulsive. I don't think this psychology is working."
Psychologist: "I sense that you are very frustrated. However, clearly, we just have not yet uncovered the root of the problem yet."
Psychologist: "I sense that you are very frustrated. However, clearly, we just have not yet uncovered the root of the problem yet."
by MurdochT April 18, 2010
Get the psychology mug.is generally defined as the science of behavior and mental processes and the application of the resulting findings to the solution of problems.
The word thus simultaneously refers to a science (involving the study of the behavior of humans and animals) and to various interventions (treatments and therapies) in the mental processes and behavioral patterns of people. It is a branch of science that studies the cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural characteristics of human beings. The "how and why" of our behavior.
The word thus simultaneously refers to a science (involving the study of the behavior of humans and animals) and to various interventions (treatments and therapies) in the mental processes and behavioral patterns of people. It is a branch of science that studies the cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural characteristics of human beings. The "how and why" of our behavior.
"To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus."
by hoffman June 29, 2005
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by d lokkkk April 27, 2006
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patient- "ok"
patient- "ok"
by byyeeeeaaahhhhwat April 8, 2015
Get the psychologist mug.The psychological Finger is the PC version of giving someone the real Finger. The recipient will only realize they have been given the Psychological Finger long after the fact when they realize that you had no intentions of following through with a promise to either help or get back to them.
You " Boss, I need a new Computer, mine is very slow"
Boss "Sure, no problem, I will send an e-mail to IT and instruct them to get you a new Computer"
You call IT two weeks later to ask whether your Boss had sent the e-mail only to find out it was never sent.
You realize your Boss had given you the Psychological Finger in your original meeting.
Boss "Sure, no problem, I will send an e-mail to IT and instruct them to get you a new Computer"
You call IT two weeks later to ask whether your Boss had sent the e-mail only to find out it was never sent.
You realize your Boss had given you the Psychological Finger in your original meeting.
by PeterUK January 18, 2008
Get the Psychological Finger mug.Rather than a psychologist or psychiatrist, a psychologer has no formal training but derives his or her theories and practises from New Age -principles; by using any source available to understand the human mind. The word combines the words astrologer and psychology, bringing it toward spiritual and intuitive knowledge over scientific approach to understanding the human mind. As he or she comes from the New Age background, they acknowledge the (possible) existence of the immortal soul that reincarnates. They are a psychologist of the soul rather than a psychologist of the mortal person. A psychologer is someone who works toward creating new theories and practises to help people solve their psychological problems; a step up from "a life coach" who uses every day knowledge and certain common New Age practises for the same thing. A psychologer has their own studies and theories, where as a life coach most likely does not; therefore, a rare individual.
Earlier, the word was used for a psychologist, one of the early forms for a psychologist, and the term refers to the exact idea; early onset psychology; non-proven science, and ground breaking, officially non-approved practises in the field of psychology.
Earlier, the word was used for a psychologist, one of the early forms for a psychologist, and the term refers to the exact idea; early onset psychology; non-proven science, and ground breaking, officially non-approved practises in the field of psychology.
"My psychologer believes I should try and remember some of my past lives to fully understand myself."
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