NEED FOR CLOSURE
is the primordial motivation or desire to achieve a full closure or finality and absoluteness in a decision, judgement or…
NEED FOR COGNITION
is the need and strong desire to stretch ones cognitive capabilities with tests of numerical and literal content. This trait…
NEED REDUCTION
is typically a conditioned response where a desire or need is decreased, from absolute, down.
NEED TO EVALUATE
is characterized with an individuals insatiable desire to evaluate their surroundings and situations, especially new ones. The need to evaluate…
NEED-FEAR DILEMMA
is a trade-off condition where individuals typically like to remain within a controlled environment however they also tend to have…
NEED-PRESS METHOD
is conducted through the use of thematic perception tests which scores sentences of stories which are told by participants as…
NEED-PRESS THEORY
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Henry Alexander Murray (1893 - 1988) who proposed this explanation of behaviour in terms of…
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
is an umbrella term used to describe a range of meanings. One such being evaluating the needs of a community…
NEFAZODONE
is an antidepressant drug which is related (chemical comparison) to the drug trazodone. Nefazodone is an serotonin antagonist drug, which…
NEGATIVE ACCELERATION
is the binary opposite to positive acceleration where a situation which should change the rate of development of a variable…
NEGATIVE ADAPTATION
is the gradual loss of feeling or effectiveness due to prolonged stimulation.
NEGATIVE AFFECT
is an internal feeling or emotion which is typically experienced after one has failed to complete a task or goal,…
NEGATIVE AFTERPOTENTIAL
is the minimal additional negative membrane potentials which are displayed by nerve and muscle cells during the refractory period.
NEGATIVE ATTITUDE
in the context of psychotherapy, a negative attitude is the feeling of negativity from the therapist towards the client.
NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
in discrete theoretical probability distribution, it describes the distribution of N number of trials which will occur before the Rth…
NEGATIVE CONDITIONED STIMULUS
describes the presentation of a stimulus, in the context of conditioned stimulus -- unconditioned stimulus pairs, is not then followed…