ARMCHAIR PSYCHOLOGY
a form of psychological inquiry or therapy that is based on introspection and rational processes without reference to an empirical…
ATTITUDE MEASURE
a procedure in which individuals' attitudes and responses are assigned quantitative values. Several broad categories of this type of measure…
AUTONOMOUS DEPRESSION
1. a major depressive episode that that may come on suddenly, but lack an identifiable obvious psychosocial stressor. See also…
BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY (BDI)
n.a measure of depression in individuals aged 13 years and above. Administered by a clinician, the test consists of 21…
BEHAVIORAL BASELINE
n. a state of behavior which is steady in form and frequency. As a constant, it serves as a standard…
BEHAVIORAL TOXICITY
n. the acute, adverse effects of exposure to toxic substances. As to the severity of the condition, toxic substances such…
CALIBRATION
n. the process of setting a measuring device in order to conform with a reference standard. These settings are either…
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
a fluctuating scale of values, utilized for approximating the value of a populace quantity from information acquired in a test…
CORRECTIVE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
an idea stemming from psychoanalysis which postulates that patients acquire significant and intensive modification via new interpersonal affective events they…
COVERT RESPONSE
any typically unseen reaction, like a visual, feeling, or though- the presence of which is generally deduced or gauged indirectly.…
CYCLIC ILLNESS 1
1. any disorder marked by changing stages. 2. bipolar I disorder wherein both periods of mania and periods of depression…
ADAPTABILITY
noun. 1. the ability to render adequate feedback up to modified or developing conditions. 2. the potential to adjust or…
AMPHETAMINES
a team of drugs that encourage the reticular development in the human brain and result in a distribution of stored…
AROUSAL REGULATION
the controlling of cognitive and physiological activation using natural or cognitive-behavioral methods. See also autogenic training.