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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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INTRINSIC REINFORCER

A response that produces a reinforcer that is naturally related to it. For example a natural sound is produced when

INTUITIVE TYPE

A functional type characterised in Carl Jung's analytic psychology and is the ability to adapt, by means of unconscious indications

INTRINSIC BEHAVIOR

1. rewarding behaviour that is inherent. 2. A specific organ and a type of behaviour that is expressed through it

INVERSE RELATIONSHIP

A relationship which is negative when one variable decreases and the other variable increases, or vice versa

INVENTORY TEST

An assessment in education a type of achievement it contains questions and is a test in the major areas of

INTROPUNITIVE

Hostility internally, blame and truning anger against the self. Se self accusation. Compare ex I rapuni itvf. Intropunitiveness n

INVERSION 1

Cognitive development in Jean Piagets theory, see negation. In vision an image is formed on the retina and is reversed.

INVERSINE

Name for mecamyi.amine and this is the trade name

INVERTED-U HYPOTHESIS

Performance and motivation and the proposed correlation between them, the performance is poorest when motivation or arousal at very high

INTRUSION ERROR

The recall in a test of the memory and was not an item among the material that was presented for

INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION

Self orientation from introversion the range or continuum characterised by inward and concerns self directed and behaviours to extraversion, characterised

INVASIVE

Puncture or incision of the skin and denoting procedures or tests that require an insertion of an instrument or material

GUILFORD-ZIMMERMAN TEMPERAMENT SURVEY (GZTS)

Measures 10 traits of personality: ascendance, sociability, friendliness, thoughtfulness, personal relations, masculinity, objectivity, general activity, restraint and emotional stability. 300

INVALID CONVERSION

An argument or a type of informal fallacy in logic that results from the meaning of a premise or overextending,

INTERRATER AGREEMENT

Degree that a group of raters will rate an attribute in the same way. Although often used synonymously with interrater

INVENTORY

In form of a question, it describes a behaviour and the studying or it, interests and attitudes, it is a

INVARIANT SEQUENCE

An order that is unchanging and in stage theories of development and in the order in which the stages of

GUSTATORY SYSTEM

all of the primary structures that are involved with detection and responses to taste and eating. Includes taste buds, papillae,

INVERSION RELATIONSHIP

Members of a family or group and a change in the usual roles, for an example when a child becomes

INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION (IM INJECTION)

A substance that is injected into a muscle by a hypodermic syringe, it is usually injected into the upper arm