Psychology Glossary
Glossary of Psychology
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Boat Accidents
Boat accidents are incidents involving watercraft that occur unexpectedly and often under stressful conditions. While boating is usually associated with leisure or recreation, accidents on the water can quickly become frightening experiences. Conditions may change without warning, visibility can be limited, and escape options are often restricted. Because of this, the effects of a boat accident are not always limited to physical injury. Emotional and cognitive responses frequently follow and can shape how a person feels about water, safety, and risk long after the incident has ended.
When questions about responsibility arise, some individuals seek practical guidance by consulting a boat accident lawyer to better understand possible next steps related to medical costs, emotional harm, or other consequences linked to the accident.
Nano needling
Nano needling is a gentle skin treatment that targets the outer layer of the skin to improve its appearance and feel. It uses a handheld device with tiny, smooth tips that lightly press and glide over the surface. These tips are not meant to penetrate deep tissue. Instead, they create very small, temporary micro-channels in the epidermis. That top layer is the skin’s "front door,” and it can block even effective skincare products from penetrating deeply.Affective Aggression
Deutsch: Affektive Aggression / Español: Agresión afectiva / Português: Agressão afetiva / Français: Agression affective / Italiano: Aggressione affettiva
Affective aggression is a form of aggressive behavior driven primarily by intense emotional arousal, such as anger, fear, or frustration, rather than by calculated or instrumental motives. Unlike predatory or proactive aggression, which is goal-directed and often cold-blooded, affective aggression is reactive, impulsive, and closely tied to the autonomic nervous system's fight-or-flight response. This distinction is critical in psychological research, as it influences diagnostic, therapeutic, and forensic approaches to aggressive behavior.
Conditioned Trauma Response
Deutsch: Konditionierte Traumareaktion / Español: Respuesta traumática condicionada / Português: Resposta traumática condicionada / Français: Réponse traumatique conditionnée / Italiano: Risposta traumatica condizionata
A conditioned trauma response refers to the learned emotional, cognitive, and physiological reactions that arise when a traumatic event becomes associated with particular cues. These associations develop through repeated or intensely memorable pairings between the distressing experience and elements present during the event, including sensory impressions, spatial characteristics, or interpersonal behavior. Over time, these cues can evoke heightened vigilance, avoidance, or involuntary arousal even when the original threat is no longer present.