Vocabulary for IELTS (Academic) - Psychology

relating to the observation, examination, and treatment of patients in a medical setting

related to the process of growth, progress, or improvement over time

an intense and irrational fear toward a specific thing such as an object, situation, concept, or animal

an explanation based on limited facts and evidence that is not yet proved to be true

a medicine without any physiological effect that is given to a control group in an experiment to measure the effectiveness of a new drug or to patients who think they need medicine when in reality they do not

the ability of mind to keep and remember past events, people, experiences, etc.

(psychology) a person that is preoccupied with external things and prefers social situations

(psychology) a person who is preoccupied with their own thoughts and feelings rather than the external world

(psychology) the process of relieving a complex by bringing it to consciousness and directly addressing it