MINERALOCORTICOID
is a corticosteroid hormone which works on the ion concentrations in body tissues regulating the excretion of salt.
MINIATURE END-PLATE POTENTIAL
results as a release of tiny amounts of neurotransmitter at an axon which causes the change in end plate potential.
MINIATURE LIFE SITUATIONS
was employed by the OSS, otherwise known as the Office of Strategic Services during World War II which dictated the…
MINIATURE SYSTEM
is the integrated knowledge, which includes facts and assumptions about a small area of study, usually within a sub-strand of…
MINIMAL AUDIBLE FIELD (MAF)
is the threshold before which a tone cannot be heard by a participant. Participants are presented with tones in a…
MINIMAL AUDIBLE PRESSURE (MAP)
is the minimum level of a tone which can be presented via headphones to a participant at the minimum threshold…
MINIMAL BRAIN DAMAGE (MBI)I 1
is a level of brain damage which may result in- short attention span, distractibility, impulsivity, hyperactivity, emotional lability, poor motor…
MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION (MBD) 1
is a mild impairment of the brain function which is assumed to account for learning difficulties and behavioural disabilities in…
MINIMAL GROUP
first used in a practical sense by Polish-born British social psychologist Henri Tajfel (1919 - 1982) in his paradigm, the…
MINIMAL INTERGROUP SITUATION
was first developed by Polish-born British social psychologist Henri Tajfel (1919 - 1982) which is used in research conditions where…
MINIMAL PAIR
in the context of linguistics is two different forms which are different or unique in just one phonological feature which…
MINIMAL-CHANGE METHOD
an experimental technique whereby stimuli are presented in ascending and descending magnitude until the participant cannot detect a change, hence…
MINIMAX STRATEGY
is part of game theory which says that players will attempt to minimize their loss.
MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION (MMSE)
is used as part of the diagnosis process for Dementia. The MMSE is used as a primarily initial type assessment…
MINIMIZATION
is the process of cognitive distortion which usually manifests itself as underestimating the importance and relevance of events to oneself…
MINIMUM POWER THEORY
is a basic theory concerning the coalition formation process which states that all members who control sufficient resources to turn…
MINIMUM RESOURCE THEORY
is an analytic method of looking at the coalition formation process which implies that people in a group situation will…