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Abnormal behavior – a group of behaviors that are deviant from social expectations because
they go against the norms or standard behavior of society.
2. Actions – the state or process of doing something or being active. It is a movement or posture
during some physical activity.
3. Ambivert – in between extrovert and introvert
4. Anal stage – pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination.
5. Anxiety - is your body’s natural response to stress. It’s a feeling of fear or apprehension about
what’s to come.
6. Attitudes – a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is
reflected in a person’s behavior.
7. Authority – the power or right to give orders, make decisions and enforce behavior.
8. Awareness – psychological activity (according to interpretation and experience)
9. Behavioral – focuses on external activities that can be observed and measured.
10. Behavioral personality theory – also known as behaviorism, is the study of human behavior as it
correlates to one’s environment.
11. Beliefs – an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
12. Biological approach – it is inherited predispositions and physiological processes to explain
individual differences in personality
13. Biological factor – heredity as a factor implies that criminal acts are unavoidable, inevitable
consequences of the bad seed or bad blood.
14. Bizarre behavior – has no rational basis seems to indicate that the individual is confused.
15. Cardinal traits – these are personality traits that are so basic that all person’s activities relate to
it.
16. Central traits – these are the core traits that characterize an individual’s personality.
17. Choleric – hot-tempered, irritable
18. Chronosystem – includes the transitions and shifts in one’s lifespan.
19. Coercion – the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
20. Cognitive – is concerned with the way the brain processes and transforms information in various
ways.
21. Cognitive approach – uses experimental research methods to study internal mental process such
as attention, perception, memory and decision-making.
22. Common traits – these are personality traits that are shared by most members of a particular
culture.
23. Complex – refers to two or more habitual behavior which occurs in one situation.
24. Complex behavior – involved a greater number of neurons, a combination of simple behavior.
25. Concrete operational – occur the beginning of logic in the child’s thought processes and the
beginning of the classification of objects by their similarities and differences, from age 7 to 11 or
12.
26. Conscientiousness – the quality of wishing to do one’s work or duty well and thoroughly.
27. Conscious – acts are within the level of awareness.
28. Constructivism – theory that says learners construct knowledge rather than just passively take in
information.
29. Covert behavior – are behaviors that are hidden, not visible to the naked eye.
30. Criminal behavior – refers to the conduct of an offender that leads to the commission of an
unlawful act.
31. Culture – the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people
or other social group.
32. Danger – the state of not being protected from injury, harm or evil.
33. Denial of Reality – protection of oneself from unpleasant reality by refusal to perceive or face it.
34. Deviance – the fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or
sexual behavior
35. Displacement – discharging pent-up emotion on objects less dangerous than those that initially
aroused the emotion.
36. Distress – extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain.
37. Durham Rule – an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act is the product of
mental disease or mental defect.
38. Dysfunction – this term involves maladaptive behavior that impairs the individual’s ability to
perform normal daily functions, such as getting ready for work in the morning, or driving a car.
39. Ego (Reality Principle) – moderator between the id and superego which seeks comprises to
pacify both.
40. Electra complex – refers to an occasion where in girls experience an intense emotional
attachment to their father.
41. Emotion – a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or
relationships with others.
42. Emotional aspect – pertains to our feelings, moods, temper, and strong motivational force.
43. Empowerment – it is the view that people who are powerless, such as women, need to be given
power.
44. Equity – it is the idea that every person has the right to an education and health care, that there
must be fairness for all.
45. Eros – named after the Greek god for love, includes the sex drives and drives such as hunger and
thirst.
46. Ethics – moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.
47. Exosystem – refers to one or more setting that do not involve the developing person as an active
participant, but in which events occur that affect or are affected by what happens in the setting
containing the developing person.
48. Extrovert – an outgoing, overly expressive person.
49. Fantasy – the gratification of frustration desire in imaginary achievement.
50. Female victims – are those who are victimized by male offenders owing to their gender.
51. Fetal alcohol syndrome – are a group of conditions that can occur in a person who was exposed
to alcohol before birth.
52. Fragile X Syndrome – is a genetic condition that causes a range of development problems
including learning disabilities and cognitive impairment.
53. Genetics – study of genes and heredity.
54. Habitual – refers to demeanors which are resorted to in a regular basis, it may be further
characterized as emotional and language.
55. Heredity – refers to the genetic heritage passed down by our biological parents.
56. Human Behavior – it is the voluntary attitude a person adopts in order to fit society’s idea of
right or wrong.
57. Human development – defined as the process of enlarging people’s freedom and opportunities
and improving their well-being.
58. Humanistic – focuses on the subject’s experience, freedom of choice and motivation toward
self-actualization.
59. Humanistic Approach – emphasizes the individual’s personal worth, the centrality of human
values, and the creative, active nature of human beings.
60. Id – allows us to get our basic needs met. Pleasure principle.
61. Identification – increasing feeling of worth by identifying self with person or institution.
62. Incestuous Marriages – blood incompatibility of parents and maternal infection during the early
stages of pregnancy.
63. Instinctive – are human conduct which is unlearned and inherent, said to be present at birth of a
person and influenced by heredity.
64. Intellectual aspect – pertains to our way of thinking, reasoning, solving problem, processing info
and coping with the environment.
65. Introvert – qualities of a personality type known as introversion, which means that they feel
more comfortable focusing on their inner thoughts and ideas, rather than what’s happening
externally.
66. Involuntary behavior – refers to the bodily process that foes on even when we are awake or
asleep like respiration, circulation and digestion.
67. Irrational behavior – when the person acted with no apparent reason or explanation.
68. Isolation – also known as intellectualization. Serves to cut off the emotions from a situation
which is normally full of feeling.
69. Latency stage – stage of psychosexual development in which overt sexual interest is sublimated
and the child’s attention is focused on skills and peer activities with members of his or her own
sex.
70. Learning – defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as the result of
prior experience.
71. Macrosystem – refers to the culture or society that frames the structures and relationships
among the systems.
72. Minority victim – refers to those victims who are targeted by criminals due to the fact that they
are victims of minority groups.
73. Neurological – emphasizes human actions to events taking place inside the body, especially the
brain and the nervous system.
74. Neuroticism – it reflects an innate biological predisposition to react physiologically to stressful or
upsetting event. Basically, neuroticism represents emotionality.
75. Normal behavior – the standard behavior, the totality accepted behavior because they follow
the standard norms of society.
76. Overt Behavior – are outwardly manifested or those that are directly observable.
77. Perception – knowledge of stimulus
78. Psychoanalytical – emphasizes unconscious motives stemming from represses sexual and
aggressive impulses in childhood.
79. Psychology – science that studies behavior and mental process.
80. Rational behavior – when a person acted with sanity or reason.
81. Sensation – the feeling or impression of stimulus.
82. Simple behavior – involves a smaller number of neurons in the process of behaving.
83. Symbolic – are human conducts in response to stimuli undertaken by means of substitution.
84. Unconscious – when acts are embedded in one’s subconscious, unaware.
85. Voluntary behavior – is an act with full volition or will.