ROLE REVERSAL
Strategy intended for treatment and instructive reasons wherein someone swaps roles with somebody else, so as to encounter different thinking…
PRIMARY REINFORCEMENT
Also referred to as unconditioned reinforcement, primary reinforcement is the process by which presentation of a stimulus following a response…
PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE
Also known as the projective method, projective technique is any personality assessment process that uses a fixed series of random…
PSYCHOANALYST
A specially trained therapist who utilizes Freudian theories and practices to treat mental disorders. In the U.S., psychoanalytically training begins…
PSYCHOLOGY
Originally a philosophy, now recognized as study of the mind represented by various disciplines and research including experimental, biological and…
PYGMALION EFFECT
An effect caused by the expectations of a superior regarding the performance of their subordinates. It has been called a…
REACTIVE MEASURE
Any measure with the action of altering a response under examination. For instance, if a subject is aware of clinical…
REFLECTION OF FEELING
With the intent of highlighting implicitly expressed attitudes articulated by a subject, statements by counselors or therapists.
RESPONSE SUPPRESSION
Lessening in the probability of a response owing to an experimental process.
SECONDARY AGING
Variance because of biological maturation, but hastened as a result of disease and poor health practices (no exercise, smoking, excess…
SELF-ASSERTION
the act of putting forward your own opinions or to express your needs, rights and wishes. In this way person…
SELF-INVENTORY
a question are used by a person to check the characteristics they perceive to apply to themselves.
SIGN TRACKING
found in conditioning behaviour directed towards a stimulus that is paired with a reinforcer.
SNOWBALL SAMPLING
A recruitment method for new participants. The current participants are asked to recommend new people for the study.
SOCIAL DRIVE
the drive we have to establish relationships with other people. See affiliative drive; gregariousness.