BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD
n. the collection and analysis of an account on a person. It may be the whole or a portion of…
CAREER COUNSELING
n. consultation with a trained professional on specific goal-setting in order to change or improve the direction of one's career.…
CONDITIONED
correlated with or explanatory of behavior whose existence, manner of demonstration, or both is the outcome of experience. The two…
CONSTRUCT VALIDITY
the magnitude to which an analysis or tool is able to gauge an abstract characteristic, capacity, or construct.
CROSS-SITUATIONAL CONSISTENCY
the magnitude to which a psychological trait is expressed in the exact same, or in an operationally equal, way in…
ACTION-ORIENTED THERAPY
any sort of treatment which stresses starting and, of course, completing behaviors instead of spoken correspondence or perhaps conversation,
ASSOCIATIVE THINKING
an unconscious or uncontrolled cognitive activity in which the mind wanders
ATTITUDE OBJECT
any targets of judgment, including people, places, and things, that have an attitude or opinion associated with it.
BASELINE ASSESSMENT
n. a measure of what humans and animals are significantly able to attain at a particular point in their development.…
BEHAVIORAL CONTINGENCY
n. that possibility that there may or may not be a relationship between an individual's specific response and the frequency…
BIOLOGICAL FACTOR
n. Anything which affects the function and behavior of a living organism. Internally, this factor can be a physical, physiological,…
CASE HISTORY
n. a complete record of information containing all data about a patient's medical or psychological condition. It may cover health,…
CONDITIONED INHIBITION
the diminishment of a conditioned reaction which happens upon surfacing of a stimulant that has prior been experienced in various…
CONTENT VALIDITY
the degree to which an analysis gauges a symbolizing example of the topic content or behavior that is being analyzed.
COUNSELING
professional help in handling and processes private problems, such as behavior-related, job-related, marriage, school, rehabilitative, school-based, life-stage, and emotionally rooted…
CUE-OVERLOAD PRINCIPLE
the standard that a recollecting cue begins to lose efficacy with regard to assisting recollection as objects correlated with that…