DIVERGENT THINKING
Thinking that formulates new solutions to problems. Compare convergent thinking.
EMOTIONAL CONFLICT
The state of disharmony between incompatible intense emotions such as love and desire.
EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING
Coping strategy focusing on regulating negative emotional reactions to a stressor. See secondary coping. Compare problem focused coping.
EPILEPTOID PERSONALITY
Personality pattern including irritability, selfishness, aggressiveness and being uncooperative.
EXACT REPLICATION
Repeating an experiment where the goal is to have the conditions as close to the original conditions as possible.
EXPOSURE THERAPY
Used to treat anxiety disorders by confronting the stimulus causing anxiety.
LIKERT SCALE
a scale which measures a perceived opinion of an object by a participant by using statements which reflect either a…
MANUAL ARTS THERAPY
is the use of manual arts such as woodworking and metalworking as rehabilitative activities.
MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY
attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other…
METAPATHOLOGY
in the context of humanistic psychology, metapathology is the frustration and anxiety which arises from an inability to fulfil ones…
MULTIPLE HURDLE MODEL OF SELECTION
is a battery of selection test typically employed when someone is applying for a position, they must pass each station…
NEGATIVE TROPISM
is the action of actively moving away from a specific source of stimulation.
NORMATIVE-REEDUCATIVE STRATEGY
with regard to cultural psychology, the concept ascertaining that societal alterations ought to be based upon active re-education of persons…
OPERANT CONDITIONING
initially explained by B.F. Skinner, the procedure wherein behavioral alterations take place as an act of the consequences of behavior.…
PASTORAL COUNSELING
a type of counseling or psychotherapy wherein knowledge and standards stemming from the disciplines of theology and the behavioral sciences…
PERCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM (PRS)
a memory system whose purpose is to recognize items and terms, permitting rapid identification of formerly encountered stimulants. Comprehensions are…
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
the department of psychology which analyzes the philosophical dilemmas pertaining to the discipline and the philosophical presumptions which underlie its…