REVERSE TOLERANCE
Generally in psychoactive drugs (especially central nervous system stimulants), the tendency of increased sensitivity in the body wherein repeated doses…
SAMPLING VARIABILITY
Degree to which the importance of a statistic varies across a variety of samples from the median importance for any…
SELECTIVE INATTENTION
Act of ignoring or otherwise screening out of stimuli that are threatening, anxiety-producing, or felt to be unimportant. Conscious or…
PREVENTION
A strategy designed to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of disease, disorders and/or social problems. Prevention could be focused on…
PROBLEMS IN LIVING
Those concrete and identifiable problems patients with chronic mental conditions face in daily life. These could include problems keeping a…
PSEUDOMEMORY
A false memory. A recollection of events that never actually happened. Pseudomemory differs from a memory that is simply inaccurate.…
PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
The opinion that most psychological phenomena are determined by outside forces out of the control of the individual experiencing them.…
PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESSOR
A major life influencing event that leads to intense stress so profound that it can contribute to the development or…
RECIPROCAL INHIBITION
The therapeutic technique that attempts to replace an undesired response with a more desirable one by counter conditioning. It requires…
RELATIONSHIP ROLE
Identifiable role taken on by a member of a group in order to achieve interpersonal harmony within the group. Also…
SELECTIVE LEARNING
Understanding how to make just one of various potential reactions or knowing about one stimulus when many stimuli are offered.…
PREVENTIVE COUNSELING
Preventive counseling has as its main focus the anticipation and avoidance of conflicts or problems for those facing stress in…
PSEUDOPSYCHOLOGY
A fraudulent or unscientific approach to psychology, for example Phrenology or palmistry
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE
Psychological distance refers to the extent that an individual has removed themselves from involvement with others.
PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPY
Therapy developed to address interpersonal aspects as they relate to possible problem situations. This therapy is designed to help a…