ERROR OF OMISSION
A type of humanerror where a person leaves out an important action resulting in a function failing. Compare error of…
EXPECTANCY EFFECT
The effect of a person's expectations about another person's behaviour on the behaviour of the person. See experimenter expectancy effect.
EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS
Stimulus coming from the external world. Compare interoceptive stimulus.
LONELINESS
a sometimes long lasting feeling of having no alternative to turn to in times of distress and depression. Generally classed…
MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY (MBI)
a theoretical method for determining the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and the level of reduced personal accomplishment. There are 22 statements…
METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM
is the acceptance of a value once multiple methodologies have been used.
MOLAR ANALYSIS
considers overall relationships between the measurements themselves, such as the average response rates to rates of reinforcement extended overa a…
NAIVE OBSERVER I
is an observer, who will have little or no knowledge about the scenario or event they are asked to observe,…
NEUROTIC ANXIETY
generally has a disturbing effect on an individuals emotions and their behaviours. In the context of psychoanalytic theory, neurotic anxiety…
PATTERN THEORY
a theory preserving that the nerve impulse pattern for pain is generated by severe arousal of non-particular receptors, since there…
PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
assessment of the functioning state of the body, an organ, or a tissue, inclusive of chemical and physical aspects and…
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…
DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION
The extinction of a response by established conditioning while other responses stay the same.