Inferiority complex
The feeling that a person has as a result of real or imagined deficiency.
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Methodological Subjectism
A proposition which emphasizes upon the use of techniques not open to verification by another observer.
Psychoanalysis
Three meanings- (i) A school of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud (ii) a method of psychotherapy and (iii) a theory of personality.
Puzzle box
A box invented originally by Thorndike and which prevents an organism from reaching a goal until a certain kind of behaviour is done.
Reductionism
The view that the complex phenomena should be under-stood through its reduction or analysis into simpler components.
Reflexology
A school of psychology enunciated by Bekhterev and which holds that reflexes and combination of reflexes are the major basis of all human behaviour.
Respondent behaviour
A response which is elicited by a specific stimulus.
Tabula rasa
A proposition which states that mind at birth is blank and later,experience writes something on it.
Unconscious
Refers to that portion of mind which consists of activities with which the person is not aware.