Depression

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LABELING

Patient may be incomplete or misleading, because not all cases conform to the sharply defined characteristics of the standard diagnostic…

FEELING

1. The self contained experience of phenomena. The feelings are subjective and are independent of the sensory modality. 2. Any…

FORMATIVE EVALUATION

the name of the process that is concerned with helping to improve or guide the development of a program through…

FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON

a person with a healthy personality, who experiences freedom of choice and action, is creative, exhibits the qualities of existential…

GASOLINE INTOXICATION

The euphoric reaction induced by inhalation of gasoline vapor. It results in headaches, weakness, depression of the central nervous system,…

GLUTAMATE

The salt or ester of amino acid glutamic acid serving as the predominant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. Glutamate plays…

GUILT

The term for the self-conscious emotion that a person will feel that features a sens of having done something wrong…

INTERVIEW SCHEDULE

An interviewer will ask questions from a script that they are contained in

IRRITABILITY

1. Abnormal sensitivity or excessive responsiveness, as of an organ or body part, to a stimulus. 2. It is a…

LABELING THEORY

Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called…

FIELD DEPENDENCE

cognitive style where the person relies on external cues rather than internal cues. These people are susceptible to deceptive cues…

FORMBOARD TEST

the name that describes the test where a person has to fit blocks into depressions of the shapes in a…

FUNCTION

1. Use or purpose of a thing. 2. Biology. Action of an organism contributing to its fitness. 3. Mathematical procedure…

GENDER

Term for the condition of being male or female or neuter. Sex refers to the biological aspects of male and…

GOAL DIFFICULTY

the term that is used to describe the degree of ability, effort and time commitment needed to achieve a certain…

INTEREST TEST

an inventory where the person is asked to express their likes and dislikes for a range of different activities and…

INTERVIEWER EFFECTS

An interviewers attributes and the influence and behaviours on the answers of a respondant. The appearance, demeanor, training, age, sex…

ISOLATION

1.The state of being isolated from others. 2.Social isolation in psychoanalytic theory is a defense mechanism that relies on keeping…

LAMOTRIGINE

Although ineffective for treating acute maniac episodes it has gained acceptance as a single drug treatment for acute bipolar depression…

EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE

is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…