ENVIRONMENTAL PRESS-COMPETENCE MODEL
Model of stress and adaptation where adaptaive functons depends on the interaction between external demands and an individual's competence to…
EXACT REPLICATION
Repeating an experiment where the goal is to have the conditions as close to the original conditions as possible.
EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)
Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.
LIFE-HISTORY METHOD
an interview which takes a structured approach to obtaining historical data about events when evaluating an individuals current functioning.
MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (MBHO)
a body of professionals which specialize in the organisation, management, administration and provision of health care benefits of health organizations.
MATCHING LAW
states that proportion of responses to an allocated to an alternative will match the proportion of reinforcement obtains from that…
MENTAL ABILITIES
describes the abilities of- spatial visualization, perceptual speed, number facility, verbal comprehension, word fluency, memory, inductive reasoning as measured by…
MIDLIFE CRISIS
typically occurs between the ages of 45 to 60 and is gender non-specific. There is no one biological reason for…
MOOD-DEPENDENT MEMORY
is a theory which suggests the rate at which a memory can be retrieved is dependent on the mood the…
NAIVE PARTICIPANT
is a participant to a study which is not aware of the experimental hypothesis and who has not participated in…
NEUROTIC DEPRESSION
defines any major depressive episode which is without psychotic features.
OBJECTIVE SCORING
scoring an examination by way of a formula or key, so that varied scorers will come to the exact same…
PERSONAL DATA SHEET
a survey modeled to attain biographical information about an individual, consisting of age, gender, education, profession, interests, and health history.
PITUITARY GLAND
a gland, pea-sized in humans, which is located at the base of the brain, linked by a stalk to the…
DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION
The extinction of a response by established conditioning while other responses stay the same.