GOAL DIFFICULTY
the term that is used to describe the degree of ability, effort and time commitment needed to achieve a certain…
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
an approach where people or information using more than one discipline will collaborate and obtain more detailed information about a…
INTERVENTION RESEARCH
Activities designed to measure how much better a situation is after modification that is systematic and to measure or has…
INVOLUNTARY ATTENTION
A prominent stimulus and the attention that is captured by it, an example in the field of the visual peripheral…
LATENT CONTENT
1. Hidden meaning in communication 2. Unconscious wishes expressed through dream or fantasy in symbolic representation as part of psychoanalytic theory.
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…
GABA ANTAGONISTS
These are the compounds that inhibit GABA receptor sites and GABA action. They can be direct and indirect. Best known…
GOAL ORIENTATION
1. Tendency for a person to physically and mentally position themselves toward their goal. 2. Characteristic of a person tending…
INTEREST TEST
an inventory where the person is asked to express their likes and dislikes for a range of different activities and…
INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT
A mental facility where an individual is kept against his or her wishes. Individuals are committed in this way, it…
LATENT INHIBITION
The impedance of Pavlovian conditioning resulting from prior exposures with a conditioned stimulus before being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
FATIGUE EFFECT
is one of the many effects attributed to fatigue, where the individual gradually becomes less and less efficient, even when…
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…
GOAL SPECIFICITY
a term used to describe the degree that the target behavior of a goal is defined.
INTERGROUP CONFLICT
The term for disagreement or confrontation between two or more groups and their members. This may involve physical violence, interpersonal…