FOOD FADDISM
the dietary practice based on exaggerated and often incorrect beliefs about the effects of food or nutrition on health, particularly…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
GENERALIZABILITY
the term that applies to the accuracy with which results or findings can be transferred to situations or people other…
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…
INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS
The flow of ongoing events that are mental and interrupt task related thoughts in spite of persistent efforts to avoid…
LABELING THEORY
Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called…
FIELD DEPENDENCE
cognitive style where the person relies on external cues rather than internal cues. These people are susceptible to deceptive cues…
FORGETTING
the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
GENERALIZATION
1. Deriving a concept or theory from a number of specific cases, applying it widely. 2. Judgement derived and applied…
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
an approach where people or information using more than one discipline will collaborate and obtain more detailed information about a…
INVARIANT FEATURE
An object that does not change or its characteristic when the object is viewed under different circumstances. Features that are…
LATENT INHIBITION
The impedance of Pavlovian conditioning resulting from prior exposures with a conditioned stimulus before being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
FIELD EXPERIMENT
an experiment that is not conducted inside a laboratory but is done outside in the real world setting. Participants are…
FORMATIVE EVALUATION
the name of the process that is concerned with helping to improve or guide the development of a program through…
FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON
a person with a healthy personality, who experiences freedom of choice and action, is creative, exhibits the qualities of existential…
INTERNAL BOUNDARY
Psychoanalytic theory. The name of the boundary between ego and id. Also called inner boundary. Compare external boundary.