FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
GAME THEORY
model or paradigm used to understand the dynamics associated with personal conflict. Often used in theoretical modelling and empirical studies.
GLUCURONIDATION
Name of the metabolic process where drugs and other substances are combined with glucuronic acid to form more water soluble…
GUILFORD-ZIMMERMAN TEMPERAMENT SURVEY (GZTS)
Measures 10 traits of personality: ascendance, sociability, friendliness, thoughtfulness, personal relations, masculinity, objectivity, general activity, restraint and emotional stability. 300…
INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION
A depressive episode that occurs during late middle age or menopause and a largely obsolete name for it
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,…
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…