Psychology Vocabulary

• Cognitive dissonance: The psychological discomfort from simultaneously holding conflicting beliefs, values, or behaviors.
• Dissent: Opposition by an individual or minority to the majority's belief or opinion.
• Addendum: Extra information added to the end of a document.
• Malinger: To fake illness or injury to avoid obligations.
• Vocation: A strong feeling of fulfillment in one's career; a dream job.
• Benevolent: Kind and generous.
• Pro-social lies: Untruths told to benefit others or the community.
• Gesticulate: To use dramatic gestures instead of or to emphasize speech.
• Contrition: Feeling remorseful and penitent.
• Antennagate: Controversy over iPhone 4 reception issues linked to its antenna design.
• Ubiquitous: Present or found everywhere.
• Pundits: Experts who frequently give opinions to the public.
• Conviction: A firmly held belief; being found guilty of a crime.
• Philandering: Having many casual sexual relationships.
• Perjury: Willfully telling an untruth in court after taking an oath.
• Satirical: Using humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize.
• Intersectionality: The interconnected nature of social categorizations creating overlapping discrimination.
• Opportunistic voracity: Taking greedy advantage of opportunities regardless of principles.
• Consumer Psychology: Studying how thoughts, beliefs, feelings influence buying behavior.
• Convoluted: Extremely complex and hard to follow.
• Abuse of popular credulity: Exploiting the public's tendency to readily believe without proof.
• Deprave: To make morally corrupt.
• Degenerate: Showing a decline in physical, mental, or moral qualities.
• Exhortation: Urging someone to do something.
• Preface: A book's introduction stating its subject or aims.
• Sanctified: Made holy or consecrated.
• Remission: Cancellation of a debt or penalty; decrease in disease severity.
• Idumea: An ancient region south of Judea in the Middle East.
• Volatile: Likely to change rapidly and unpredictably for the worse.
• Acquiescence: Reluctant acceptance without protest.
• Reticent: Not readily revealing thoughts or feelings.
• Innocuous: Not harmful or offensive.
• Portentous: Ominous; giving a sign of future bad events.
• Trepidation: Fear or agitation about potential events.
• Trivial: Of little value or importance.
• Neurotic: Excessively anxious or obsessive.
• Gossamer: Very light, thin, and insubstantial.
• Epithet: A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of someone or something.
• Embattled: Involved in or prepared for war or long-term conflict.
• Chicanery: Trickery used for political, financial, or legal purposes.
• Duplicitous: Deceitful.
• Preemptively: Done to prevent something, such as an attack.
• Continuum: A continuous sequence where extremes are distinct but adjacent elements aren't perceptibly different.
• Capricious: Prone to sudden mood or behavior changes.
• Indelible: Cannot be removed or forgotten.
• Agroecology: An ecological approach to agriculture viewing farms as ecosystems.
• Extraneous: Irrelevant.
• Novice: Someone new to a field.
• Encumber: To restrict or burden, hindering free movement.
• Adept: Very skilled.
• Communing: Sharing intimate thoughts or feelings, especially spiritually.
• Minuscule: Extremely small.
• Negligible: Insignificant; not worth considering.
• Communion: Sharing intimate thoughts and feelings, especially mentally or spiritually.
• Confirm: To establish the truth of something.
• Tonsure: A bare spot on a monk's or priest's head from shaving hair.
• Futile: Pointless; incapable of producing results.
• Arduous: Difficult and tiring.
• Unkempt: Untidy or disheveled.
• Capacious: Roomy.
• Gastronomic: Related to the art of good eating.
• Detritus: Waste or debris.
• Evanescence: The act of fading away.
• Ephemeral: Lasting a very short time.
• Inundated: Overwhelmed or flooded.
• Mitate: Seeing one thing as another in Japanese art.
• Impermanence: Lasting only a limited time.
• Permeate: To spread throughout.
• Ineffable: Too great to be expressed in words.
• Coax: To gently persuade.
• Inimitable: Impossible to copy; unique.
• Apt: Appropriate; having a tendency to do something.
• Desolate: Deserted and dismal.
• Veritable: Used to intensify a metaphor.

Key psychology terms explained: cognitive dissonance, dissent, and more. Understand concepts from 'benevolent' to 'ubiquitous' with definitions and context. Explore the nuances of human behavior and belief.