Learn 50 terms that are thrown around but never explained.

50. Id is the part of the psyche driven by chaotic impulses that demand gratification.

49. Schizophrenia is a mental disease that includes the presence of hallucinations, delusions, negativistic behavior, and progressive deterioration.
48. Anxiety is a feeling of mingled dread and apprehension about the future without specific cause for fear.
47. Cultural Relativism is the view that art, literature, music, mechanical inventions can only be judged in relation to the culture that it comes from.
46. Culture is the totality of the customs, arts, science, religious, and political behavior that distinguishes one society from another.
45. Repression is a state despondency characterized by the feeling of inadequacy, lowered activity, and pessimism about the future.
44. Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis is a psychoneurosis characterized by persistent and often unwanted ideas (obsessions) and impulses to carry out compulsion, or irrational, stereotyped, and ritualistic acts.
43. Bipolar means to characterize traits expressed as opposites, such as dominance and submission.
42. Retardation is a slowing of an individual’s mental development.
41. Compartmentalization is the isolation and blocking-off of ideas, feelings, values, and attitudes.
40. Hedonism says either that pleasure alone is ultimately good, or that every action should aim to maximize pleasure.
39. Workers Control says that production should be controlled by those directly engage in it, rather than by non-productive owners.
38. Gradualism proposes that species evolution occurs slowly through barely perceptible changes, rather than suddenly, as a result of cataclysmic events.
37. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are: Physiological / Safety / Belongingness and Love / Esteem / Self Actualization.
36. Ego is a relatively powerful, independent part of personality that works toward such goals as establishing one’s identity and satisfying a need for mastery over the environment.

35. Darwinism is the belief that individuals possessing characteristics better than those who have weak characteristics.

34. Oligarchy is a form of politics that concentrate all of the power with the few.

33. Dialectic Theory says that dialogue in which the generation, interpretation and clash of opposites can lead to a fuller mode of thought.

32. Democracy is governance by the whole people.

31. Socialism argues that economic production requires public investment and justifies a public share in the distribution of rewards.

30. Materialism includes any theory emphasizing the existence, priority, or value of matter or material objects.

29. Lexicon is the component of a grammar which specifies the semantic, syntactic and phonological properties of individual words.

28. Machiavellianism says that the end justifies the means, and moral considerations should be subordinated to the achievement of material or political goals.

27. Latent learning is a theory that learning can happen in the absence of a foreseen goal or reward.

26. Functionalism is any theory analyzing something in terms of its function.

25. An opinion is a belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge.

24. A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality.

23. Kemetic life is based upon the development of the mind, body, and spirit.

22. Jackson’s Law states that functions or processes will deteriorate in relation to the length of time they are present in a system.

21. Individualism makes the claim that human social life is to be understood in terms of the actions of individuals, who are the basic units of society.

20. Cybernetics is an application of mechanical and scientific models for the understanding of political life.

19. Keynesian economics asserts that government management or stimulation of the economy to influence demand (through monetary or fiscal policy) can alleviate this problem of high unemployment.

18. Expressionist Music distorts, exaggerates or rejects traditional techniques to produce intensity of feeling.

17. The recent analysis of the Theory of the Firm suggest that sales maximization or market share, combined with satisfactory profits, may be the main purpose of large industrial corporations.

16. Gestalt Psychology takes the view that phenomena should be studied and treated as a whole rather than on an elemental or componential basis.

15. Abstractionism is the view that the mind gets some or all of its concepts by abstracting them from concepts it already has or from experience.

14. The Theory of Human Nature says that there is a natural human character as there is a natural form to a particular plant or a natural form to a particular animal.

13. Divine Right is the belief that kings derive their power from God and that subjects are to obey the kings as they obey God.

12. Abstract Art compromises non-figurative art.

11. Absolutism in its political sense is a description of government without constitutional restrictions.

10. Absolute Space is the reference frame against which the motion of the body in space is to be measured.

9. Gaia Hypothesis claims that all animals, plants and humans contribute to the system which has checks and balances to ensure the continuance of life.

8. Fantastic works of literature are concerned with the intrusion of the supernatural, uncanny or mysterious into real life.

7. Ability is the power to perform an act.

6. Balance theory is the position  that people prefer to hold consistent and compatible  beliefs while avoiding those that are inconsistent and incompatible.

5. Activism is a theory of political tactics.

4. Michael Bakunin (1814-76)  thought that human beings should remove institutions that distort  human beings natural tendency to be sociable  and co-operative.

3. Capital logic is the theory that the form and character of political institutions are determined by those of economic ones.

2. Dadaism was the attempt to undermine art itself by using iconoclastic and revolutionary means to subvert conventional taste.

1. Empiricism is the emphasis on sense-experience rather than reason or intuition as the basis for either some or all of our knowledge