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Psychological Phenomena and Processes

Medical Definition:	Mechanisms and underlying psychological principles of mental processes and their applications.
Guide Notes:	not used for indexing; DF: PSYCHOL PHENOMENA CATALOG: do not use

Psychological Phenomena and Processes Categories.

	Mental Health - The state wherein the person is well adjusted.
	Mental Processes - Conceptual functions or thinking in all its forms.
	Parapsychology - Branch of psychology that deals with paranormal behavior and events such as telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance, which are not explicable by present day "natural laws".
	Personal Autonomy - Self-directing freedom and especially moral independence. An ethical principle holds that the autonomy of persons ought to be respected. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
	Psycholinguistics - A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators.
	Psychological Theory - Principles applied to the analysis and explanation of psychological or behavioral phenomena.
	Psychology, Applied - The science which utilizes psychologic principles to derive more effective means in dealing with practical problems.
	Psychomotor Performance - The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity.
	Religion and Psychology - The interrelationship of psychology and religion.

Psychological Phenomena and Processes Medical Definitions and Terms

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