ADAPTABILITY
noun. 1. the ability to render adequate feedback up to modified or developing conditions. 2. the potential to adjust or…
AFFECTIVE TONE
the state of mind or sense corresponding with a particular encounter or stimulant. In therapy, whenever a patient doesn't work…
ANXIOUS-AVOIDANT ATTACHMENT
in the strange situation experiment, designed by Mary Ainsworth, a form of attachment whereby an infant explores only minimally and…
APTITUDE TEST
an overall assessment instrument or test designed to measure (a) concrete abilities such as dexterity, visual acuity, and clerical performance-…
ATTENUATION THEORY
a part of the filter theory of attention, which proposes that unattended messages are attenuated (i.e., processed weakly) but not…
AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS
1. instantaneous, habitual, and unconscious thoughts that may affect a person's mood and actions. Helping clients evaluate the utility and…
AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR
any behavioral act that enables an individual to avoid anticipated unpleasant or painful situations, stimuli, or events, including conditioned aversive…
BEHAVIORAL BASELINE
n. a state of behavior which is steady in form and frequency. As a constant, it serves as a standard…
BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY
n. the capacity and degree to which human behavior can be altered by environmental factors such as learning and social…
CARDIAC PSYCHOSIS
n. a disorganization in thought processes and a loss in social functioning as a result of a heart condition. It…
CONFIDENTIALITY
noun. A standard of professional values necessitating suppliers of mental or medical healthcare to constrain the revealing of a person's…
CONSTITUTIONAL FACTOR
a fundamental psychological propensity to add to character, nature, and the philosophy of certain physical and cognitive diseases. Said elements…
COPING BEHAVIOR
a trait and frequently default behavior or group of behaviors ensued whenever coping with taxing or hazardous scenarios. Such actions…
COUNTERBALANCING
the procedure involved in organizing a sequence of trial and error conditions or remedies in a way that lessens the…
CROWD BEHAVIOR
the symptomatic behavior of a set of individuals who come together for a transitory period of time while their interest…
ACHIEVEMENT GOAL THEORY
any of numerous theorems of willingness that discern two kinds of success pursuits, goal-oriented, ego-oriented, that unite such dissimilarities in…