Bipolar Disorder

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DEPRIVATION

The removal or denial of something or the reduction of access to a reinforcer.

DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION

The extinction of a response by established conditioning while other responses stay the same.

DISORDER

A group of systems that can involve abnormal behaviour, intense or persistent stress or the disruption of a function. See

DOPAMINE (DA)

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter with a vital role in several functions of the brain: sleep, mood, motivation, behavior, reward, cognition,

ECOBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT

Assessment used in applied behaviour analysis to measure moment-to-moment effects on specific behaviours.

EMOTION

The complex reaction pattern that involves experiential, behavioural and physiological elements.

EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

The reassurance, encouragement and understanding we give or receive to a person.

ERROR OF EXPECTATION

The error that arises from a preconceived idea.

EXEMPLIFICATION

The strategy a person uses to make other people regard them as highly moral and virtuous.

EXTERNAL VALIDITY

The extent that research can be generalized beyond the results to other situations or people.

LONELINESS

a sometimes long lasting feeling of having no alternative to turn to in times of distress and depression. Generally classed

MANUAL METHOD, MANUALIZED THERAPY

is a method used during experiments which maintains rigid conditions and settings in the study to ensure consistency across the

MEMORY DISTORTION

is the inaccurate and usually wrong recall of incorrect facts in relation with a specific stimulus.

MICROPSYCHOSIS

is a psychotic episode which unusually lasts an incredibly short duration, from a few minutes to a hours which typically

MOOD STABILIZERS

are used to reduce the symptoms of mania or manic episodes during the general treatment of cyclic mood disorders including

NAIVE PARTICIPANT

is a participant to a study which is not aware of the experimental hypothesis and who has not participated in

NEW-LOOK THEORY OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

was first proposed by U.S. psychologists Joel Cooper and Russel H. Fazio who suggested a version of the already established

OBJECTIVE TEST

an examination modeled to induce a particular response, accurate or inaccurate. A true or false examination is one instance of

ORGANISMIC VALUING PROCESS

with regard to client-focused theory, the assumed wellness and inborn interior advice program which an individual can utilize to stay

PAPER-AND-PENCIL TEST

an examination wherein the problems or queries are penned, printed, or drawn and the answers are penned too.