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Deutsch: Räumliche Beziehungen / Español: Relaciones espaciales / Português: Relações espaciais / Français: Relations spatiales / Italiano: Relazioni spaziali
Spatial Relations in the psychology context refer to the cognitive ability to understand and mentally manipulate objects in space and the relationships between them. This includes recognizing shapes, distances, directions, orientations, and how parts relate to a whole—skills that are fundamental for navigation, construction, drawing, reading maps, and even body awareness.
Spatial relations are critical in childhood development, learning processes, visual-motor coordination, and problem-solving. Deficits in this area can affect academic performance, everyday functioning, and emotional well-being.
Deutsch: Spezialisierung / Français: Spécialisation / Español: Especialización / Português: Especialização / Italiano: Specializzazione
Specialization in the psychology context refers to two distinct but related concepts:
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A professional focus within the field of psychology, where practitioners and researchers dedicate their work to a specific subfield such as clinical, cognitive, developmental, or forensic psychology.
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A psychological pattern where an individual becomes overly focused or fixated on a specific role, identity, coping strategy, or domain of competence. This may emerge from early life experiences, societal reinforcement, or psychological defense mechanisms.
The term Specific determines words that give clues to true-false items; "all", "always", "never", and "none" indicate false statements, while some, sometimes, and may indicate true statements.