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N., Sam M.S.

Sam holds a masters in Child Psychology and is an avid supporter of Psychology academics.
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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 FOR POWER

is the strong desire to seek and secure power over other people.

NEED REDUCTION

is typically a conditioned response where a desire or need is decreased, from absolute, down.

NEED TO BELONG

is the strong desire to form relationships and belong to groups.

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

NEGATION

in the context of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, negation is the process where an individual realises a process

NEGATIVE

in the context of linguistics, the use of negative can be used to form an assertive sentence structure or even

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