Psychology BSc Honours at Middlesex University London

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Resilience - Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.

Stimuli - Stimuli is something that arouses activity or energy in someone or something.

 

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In utero - In utero means in the womb.

 

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To infer - To infer something means that you arrive at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence.

 

2.1 

 

Cognition - Cognition is ​​the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.

Neuroimaging - Neuroimaging is the use of quantitative techniques to study the structure and function of the central nervous system, developed as an objective way of scientifically studying the healthy human brain.

 

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Motor cortex - The primary function of the motor cortex is to generate signals to direct the movement of the body. It is part of the frontal lobe of the brain.

Giacomo Rizzolatti - Giacomo Rizzolatti is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. He is famous for being the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey.

Covertly imitate - To covertly imitate means to ​​automatic copying or simulation of behaviour to understand another person's experience. 

Brain activation - Brain activation is the change over a period of several hours in the regions activated by learning.

Contentious - Contentious means likely to cause disagreement or argument.

 

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3.3

 

Antagonistic - To be antagonistic is showing or feeling active opposition or hostility towards someone or something.

Callous - To be callous is to feel or show no sympathy for others, to be hard-hearted and show indifference to suffering.

Continuum - A continuum is essentially a coherent whole - a continuous series of elements or items that vary by such tiny differences that they do not seem to differ from each other.

 

4.1

 

Salience - Salience is the quality of being particularly noticeable or important, or prominent within a social circle.

 

4.2

 

Social Anxiety - Social anxiety disorder is an overwhelming fear of social situations like meeting or speaking to people.

Subjective experience - A subjective experience refers to the emotional and cognitive impact of a human experience as opposed to an objective experience which are the actual events of the experience. Pain is an example - we are all having a subjective experience whenever we are experiencing pain because nobody else can possibly measure it.

Paradigm - A paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns in psychology.

 

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Cortisol  - Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain's use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues.

 

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Dr Kristin Neff - Kristin Neff is an associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin's department of educational psychology. Kristin is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, creating a scale to measure the construct almost 20 years ago.

 

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Theoretical framework - A theoretical framework is the structure that can hold or support a theory of a research study. The theoretical framework introduces and describes the theory that explains why the research problem under study exists.

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