Anxiety Disorders

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INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN

Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured

INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION

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

KNOWLEDGE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE

A positive attitude toward a friend may assist in attributing that person's negative behaviour to situational factors rather that personal

FACILITATION

is the change or difference in the strength of a stimulus which follows a potentially weaker stimulus at a neuron.

FECHNER'S LAW

a law that relates subjective experience to changes in stimulus intensity. This psychophysical formula proposes that the sensation experienced is

FOLLOW-UP STUDY

the study undertaken to see if the short term effects of a therapy will continue after a certain period of

FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS

States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to

FUTURE-MINDEDNESS

the term used for the ability to engage in means to end future about the future. Being able to think

GLOBAL PERCEPTION

This term is applied to the overall perception of an object or a situation focusing on the whole rather than

IN VIVO EXPOSURE THERAPY

A person is exposed to situations provoking anxiety in a real world condition to try to master the anxiety and

INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)

Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the

INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS

The flow of ongoing events that are mental and interrupt task related thoughts in spite of persistent efforts to avoid

KSAOS

Knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics and the abbreviation

TEST BATTERY

a set or series of correlated presumptions delivered at one time, with scores documented separately or mixed to produce a

TIME SAMPLING

the procedure of attaining observations over a period of time. The procedure might comprise set time periods or varied time

TREATMENT

noun. the delivery of adequate measures which are modeled to alleviate a pathological condition. 2. the level of an independent

UPPER THRESHOLD

1. fora difference threshold, the limit at which the stimulant is considered to be more significant than the principle. 2.

VULNERABILITY

susceptibility to cultivating a disorder, condition, or illness whenever exposed to particular substances or conditions.

TEST BIAS

the propensity of an exam to systematically under- or over-estimate the authentic scores of people to whom the exam is

TIME-SERIES DESIGN

an experimental model which consists of the viewing of units over a specified period of time.