FIRST-ORDER FACTOR
Used in factor analysis. Any factors that are derived from the correlation among the manifest variables, as opposed to second-…
FRUSTRATION
1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy…
GENERALIZATION
1. Deriving a concept or theory from a number of specific cases, applying it widely. 2. Judgement derived and applied…
INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN
Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured…
JUNGIAN TYPOLOGY
a theory of personality that puts individuals into separate categories according to attitudes and dominant functions of the psyche.
FLAT AFFECT
a term used for the absence or apparent absence of emotional response to any situation or event. Also called emotional…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)
Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the…
FOCUS GROUP
group of about 12 people with common characteristics who have been selected to discuss a topic. A leader starts the…
FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON
a person with a healthy personality, who experiences freedom of choice and action, is creative, exhibits the qualities of existential…
GLOBAL PERCEPTION
This term is applied to the overall perception of an object or a situation focusing on the whole rather than…
INTERVENING VARIABLE
1. Is an entity and hypothetical and is influenced by an independent variable and influences in turn a variable dependent.…
KIRTON ADAPTION-INNOVATION INVENTORY (KAI)
It is designed to measure creativity, cognitive style and the degree to which individuals are adaptive, innovative or a range…
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FOLLOW-UP COUNSELING
1. The steps taken by a therapist to help a client with any ongoing problems or new symptoms that may…
GLUCURONIDATION
Name of the metabolic process where drugs and other substances are combined with glucuronic acid to form more water soluble…
INTERVENTION RESEARCH
Activities designed to measure how much better a situation is after modification that is systematic and to measure or has…