INVARIANT FEATURE
An object that does not change or its characteristic when the object is viewed under different circumstances. Features that are…
KNOWLEDGE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE
A positive attitude toward a friend may assist in attributing that person's negative behaviour to situational factors rather that personal…
THEORY OF MIND
the capacity to imagine or form opinions about the cognitive states of other people: What does the other person know?…
TRAIT THEORY
approaches which explain character traits with regard to individual facets of one's personality, that being, interior traits which are thought…
TRUE EXPERIMENT
an analysis wherein involved parties are designated at random to at least two experimentally manipulated remediation conditions.
WITHDRAWAL REACTION
an extreme type of social withdrawal which , at times, takes place in serious cases of major depressive episode. 2.…
THEORY X AND Y
two different forms of managerial philosophy: Theory X employers presume that employees are passive, lazy, and driven only by financial…
TRANSACTION
noun. 1. any interaction between the person and the social or physical surroundings, particularly during involvement between at least two…
TRUE SCORE
with regard to classical test theory, the portion of a gauge or score which depicts the actual quantity of the…
WITHIN-GROUP VARIANCE
the variance among identically remedied people in the same group or populace. Commonly referred to as intraclass variance.
THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
a well-aligned working union between patient and therpay professional, though by a great many to be a vital facet of…
TRANSFERENCE
noun. With regard to psychoanalysis, the displacement or projection onto the analyst of unconscious emotions and desires initially directed toward…
TYPICALITY EFFECT
the discovery that individuals are faster to make category judgments regarding common members of a category than they are to…
VARIED MAPPING
during a search task, a condition wherein target and distractor stimulus alter roles at random during the course of an…
WORKING BACKWARD
a problem-resolution method wherein the solver starts at the objective state and tries to discover a passage back to the…
TECHNICAL ECLECTICISM
with regard to integrative psychotherapy, the utilization of methods from many different theoretical contexts to manage the involved problems a…
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION
any remark or observation by the therapy professional which escalates the patient's consciousness or self-comprehension.
TRANSGENDER
adjective. having or correlating to gender identities which vary from culturally defined gender roles and biological gender. Transgender states are…