EXPECTANCY
1. Behavioural psychology. The state where an organism anticipates an event based on previous experience. 2. Cognitive psychology. Mental set…
EXTERNALIZATION
1. defense mechanism where our thoughts and feelings are attributed to the external world. 2. Process of learning to distinguish…
LITIGIOUS PARANOIA
a strand of paranoia in which individuals quarrel consistently, claim persecution (which is usually untrue) and insist that their 'rights'…
MEMORY DISTORTION
is the inaccurate and usually wrong recall of incorrect facts in relation with a specific stimulus.
METHODOLOGICAL OBJECTIVISM VERSUS METHOD
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Robert I. Watson (1909 - 1980) is a prescriptive dimension which can be used to…
MODERATOR VARIABLE
with respect to statistics, a moderator variable is entirely unrelated to the criterion variable but it is still related to…
MUTUAL PRETENSE
typically occurs between members of a group due to anxiety of the consequences if any of the group fail to…
NERVOUS HABIT
are typically actions which exert a degree of control over a situation such as biting ones nails.
OPTIMAL LEVEL THEORY
any theory which stresses living beings' strife to reach optimal levels of some attribute, like arousal or stimulation, tension, foraging,…
PERSEVERATION
1. overall, perseverance in doing something to an awesome level or past an adequate point. 2. with regard to neuropsychology,…
PHYSIOLOGICAL AROUSAL
features of arousal reflected by physiological reactions, like escalations in blood pressure and rate of respiration and lessened activity of…
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
1. Process of deciding which of 2 diseases are showing overlapping systems. 2. Distinction between 2 or more similar conditions…
DISEQUILIBRIUM
1. Loss of physical balance. 2. An emotional imbalance. 3. State of tension between cognitive processes. See equilibriation- disesthesia.
DOUBLE BLIND
An experimental procedure where the nature of the experiment is not known. See blind. Compare single blind- triple blind.