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…
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…
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.
TIME-SERIES DESIGN
an experimental model which consists of the viewing of units over a specified period of time.