BIBLIOTHERAPY
A form of supportive psychotherapy in which the patient is given carefully selected material to read.During the era of “moral…
BILIRUBIN ENCEPHALOPATHY (Kemicterus)
A toxic brain disorder occurring in infants, due to accumulation in the gall bladder of bilirubin, a red breakdown product…
What are the Psychological Causes Of Bed-Wetting?
Wetting the bed at night or enuresis is not an uncommon practice for children under six years of age and…
BACKTRACK SEARCH
refers to a graph search strategy that considers states in a graph recursively. So, If the present state is not…
BALDWIN'S FIGURE
refers to a horizontal line with a square at each end. Smaller squares make the line look longer than when…
BAR REFLEX
n. in pathology, refers to an experience wherein an individual in recumbent position reacts with a lateral or vertical motion…
BARRICADE INCIDENTS
n. a standard police response to managing hostage and crisis situations. What to do and how to negotiate these incidents…
BASIC PERSONALITY
n. a pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving which is distinct among people raised within a similar culture. These similarities…
BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK
n. a statistical model which illustrates random variables and conditional dependencies via a simple directed acyclic graph (DAG). There is…
BEE COMMUNICATION
n. a pattern of movement displayed by bees in order to communicate with each other. Usually done in a figure-of-eight…
BEHAVIOR HIERARCHY
n. in the study of of behavior, refers to a ranking of possible behavioral responses based on the relative probablity…
BEHAVIORAL APPROACH SYSTEM (BAS)
n. one of two motivational systems which govern human and animal behavior. Activated by incentive motivation, the response is towards…
BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS
n. a descriptive analysis of the internal behavior patterns which motivate or cause the overt, external behavior. There is a…
BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
n. a multidisciplinary field of medicine which develops and integrates knowledge on how behavioral theories and therapeutic methods can be…
BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR
n. any particular behavior or behavior pattern which strongly yet adversely affects health. It increases the chances of developing a…
BEHAVIORISM
n. a scientific approach to psychology in which the study is based on observable, quantifiable facts and not on subjective…
BELL AND PAD
n. a remedy used in the treatment and control of nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting). It makes use of a device which…