EGO RESILIENCY
A personality with the ability to vary and adapt and express emotional impulses depending on social demands.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence involving the ability to process emotional information. See quotient.
ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION
Depression occuring in the absence of a psychological stressor where a biological or genetic cause is implied. Compare reactive depression.
EVALUATION APPREHENSION
The uneasiness about being judges by others especially being judged by the experimenter.
EXPERT POWER
The capacity to influence others deriving from the assumption that the influencer has superior skills. See power.
LIFE SATISFACTION
the degree which adults (typically) find the lives they lead rich, meaningful, full or of a generally high quality. Improving…
MAINTAINING CAUSE
a direct influence on an individuals life, typically from either peers or their careers which leads to maladaptive behaviours.
MASS PSYCHOLOGY
Is the collective term used to describe the range of psychological and emotional processes which occur throughout a population of…
MEMORY DISTORTION
is the inaccurate and usually wrong recall of incorrect facts in relation with a specific stimulus.
METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM
is the acceptance of a value once multiple methodologies have been used.
MOOD DISORDER
is defined by the DSM (diagnostic statistical manual) as: a psychiatric disorder in which the principal feature is mood disturbance.…
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS)
is a condition where the myelin sheaths coating neurons within the nervous system are systematically removed leading to neurons enflaming…
NEGATIVE TROPISM
is the action of actively moving away from a specific source of stimulation.
OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING
the choosing of participants or other sampling factors for an experiment or questionnaire essentially because they're readily available.
PASTORAL COUNSELING
a type of counseling or psychotherapy wherein knowledge and standards stemming from the disciplines of theology and the behavioral sciences…
PERSEVERATION
1. overall, perseverance in doing something to an awesome level or past an adequate point. 2. with regard to neuropsychology,…
PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
assessment of the functioning state of the body, an organ, or a tissue, inclusive of chemical and physical aspects and…