Dissociative Disorders

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FREE ASSOCIATION

the basic process in psychoanalysis and other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy where patients are encouraged to verbalise freely whatever thoughts

FUNCTIONAL AGE

term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to

GENERALIZATION

1. Deriving a concept or theory from a number of specific cases, applying it widely. 2. Judgement derived and applied

GROUP TEST

the term that is applied to the test administered to several individuals simultaneously. Compare individual test.

INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN

Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured

INVENTORY

In form of a question, it describes a behaviour and the studying or it, interests and attitudes, it is a

LABELING

Patient may be incomplete or misleading, because not all cases conform to the sharply defined characteristics of the standard diagnostic

EYSENCK'S TYPOLOGY

is otherwise known as PEN typology; is a system which is used to classify human personality types, through the use

FIELD NOTES

These are the notes that are taken when out in the field and observing an experiment or a phenomenon. They

FREE WILL

Name used to describe the capacity that a person has for making their own decisions and directions in life. We

FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT

1. Assessment to identify circumstances and consequences associated with a certain behaviour. Defined in measurable terms. Used to design treatments

GENETICS

The branch of biology concerning the mechanisms and phenomena of heredity and the laws that determine inherited traits. See behavior

GUIDANCE

a term used to describe the direction, advice and counselling provided in cooperation with the client that will often use

INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)

Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the

INVERTED-U HYPOTHESIS

Performance and motivation and the proposed correlation between them, the performance is poorest when motivation or arousal at very high

LATENCY OF RESPONSE

The messure of time that occurs from the introduction of a stimulus and the following response or reaction time. Common

TEMPERANCE

noun. any type of auspicious self-constraint, manifested as self-regulation in overseeing and controlling one

THINNING

with regard to conditioning, a gradual escalation in the intermittency of reinforcement.

TRANSFERENCE

noun. With regard to psychoanalysis, the displacement or projection onto the analyst of unconscious emotions and desires initially directed toward

TYPOLOGY

noun. any study of a specific classification of phenomena into categories based upon typical traits of a personality.