IN VIVO DESENSITIZATION
Used to reduce and eliminate phobias when a client is exposed to stimuli that induces anxiety. The therapist will produce…
INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN
Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured…
INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION
Self orientation from introversion the range or continuum characterised by inward and concerns self directed and behaviours to extraversion, characterised…
KNOWLEDGE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE
A positive attitude toward a friend may assist in attributing that person's negative behaviour to situational factors rather that personal…
FACILITATION
is the change or difference in the strength of a stimulus which follows a potentially weaker stimulus at a neuron.…
FECHNER'S LAW
a law that relates subjective experience to changes in stimulus intensity. This psychophysical formula proposes that the sensation experienced is…
FOLLOW-UP STUDY
the study undertaken to see if the short term effects of a therapy will continue after a certain period of…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
FUTURE-MINDEDNESS
the term used for the ability to engage in means to end future about the future. Being able to think…
GLOBAL PERCEPTION
This term is applied to the overall perception of an object or a situation focusing on the whole rather than…
IN VIVO EXPOSURE THERAPY
A person is exposed to situations provoking anxiety in a real world condition to try to master the anxiety and…
INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)
Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the…
INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS
The flow of ongoing events that are mental and interrupt task related thoughts in spite of persistent efforts to avoid…
FACILITATIVE ANXIETY
is a particular level of anxiety which an individual, normally an athlete, would consider to actually become advantageous to their…
FOOD FADDISM
the dietary practice based on exaggerated and often incorrect beliefs about the effects of food or nutrition on health, particularly…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
GLUCURONIDATION
Name of the metabolic process where drugs and other substances are combined with glucuronic acid to form more water soluble…