AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION (APF)
a not-for-profit, charity-based entity formed in 1953- it supplies students with financial grants, awards, and scholarships in effort to further…
AMINO ACID IMBALANCE
a hereditary or later obtained disease, marked by a lack of capacity within the body to carry or use specific…
AMPA RECEPTOR
a kind of glutamate receptor that ties together ampa in addition to glutamate. AMPA receptors are grouped together in ligand-gatidion…
ANACLITIC PERSONALITY
with regard to varying psychoanalytic theories, the collection of character development which is concentrated upon emotions of solitude or fear…
ANAL-EXPULSIVE PHASE
with regard to psychoanalytic principles, a level of the anal phase in which enjoyments attained by voiding bodily waste and…
ANALYSIS OF THE RESISTANCE
a minor undertaking in the field of psychological assessment wherein a person's propensity to continually subdue unconscious urges and encounters…
ANDROSTERONE
n. a steroid hormone associated with the development of male and female sex organs. Secreted by two areas: testes and…
ANGER MANAGEMENT
a group of therapeutic techniques used by an individual to manage the expression of anger - making the expression appropriate…
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
the study and documentation of many aspects of non-human animal behaviors. Typically, includes ethology, behavioral ecology, and comparative psychology. May…
ANIMAL MAGNETISM
a hypothesized and mystical force that attracts males and females to each other, for the purposes of mating. This term…
ANNIVERSARY EVENT
the marking of a date of significance on an annual basis, to demark a positive or negative event.
ANOMALOUS TRICHROMATISM
a unique form of color-blindness in which individuals have the usual three retina cones, but one of them has a…
ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY SYNDROME (ACOA SYNDROME)
a syndrome arising as a consequence of rupture or aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery. This artery is small, located…
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
n. the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman entities for example, animals, deities, plants, and objects. Although this cannot be…
ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY
apprehension about an event prior to its occurrence. The apprehension occurs due to the expectation of a negative outcome -…