mentality

mentalidad

Manera habitual en que una persona o un grupo piensa y entiende las cosas.

En inglés sencillo: A person’s or group’s usual way of thinking and understanding things.

• She has a winning mentality.
• We need to change the mentality of the whole team.
• That old mentality is difficult to overcome.

Cómo se usa: the mentality of someone (The book explores the mentality of young soldiers.)

Sinónimos: mindset, outlook, attitude

Expresiones frecuentes: winning mentality, victim mentality, mentality of someone

estructura mental

Conjunto de rasgos y procesos de la mente, relacionados entre sí y moldeados por el cuerpo, el lenguaje y la cultura.

En inglés sencillo: The connected features and processes of a mind, shaped by the body, language, and culture.

• The theory treats mentality as a system of linked processes.
• Language plays a role in the development of human mentality.
• Researchers compared the structures of mentality across cultures.

Sinónimos: mental organization

Expresiones frecuentes: human mentality, structure of mentality, development of mentality