role overload

a situation resulting from the assumption of a role or of multiple roles in which one is asked to do more than one is capable of doing in a specific period of time (quantitative overload) or in which one is taxed beyond one’s knowledge, skills, and abilities (qualitative overload).

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Psychology term of the day

May 8th 2024

integrative agnosia

a form of visual agnosia in which individuals are able to perceive the elements of an object but find it difficult to combine them into a perceptual whole. Typically, symptoms of both apperceptive and associative agnosia are present. Individuals affected by this kind of agnosia can usually draw an object accurately but only through a laborious process.