Dissociative Disorders

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TRAIT THEORY

approaches which explain character traits with regard to individual facets of one's personality, that being, interior traits which are thought

TRUE SCORE

with regard to classical test theory, the portion of a gauge or score which depicts the actual quantity of the

VENTILATION

with regard to counseling and psychotherapy, a patient

THERAPIST

noun. a person who has been trained in and practices one or more methods of therapy to remedy cognitive or

TRAIT-NEGATIVITY BIAS

the propensity for negative character traits to play a greater role than positive character traits in determining overall impressions and

TWILIGHT STATE

a state of clouded awareness wherein the person is transiently not aware of their current environment, experiences fleeting auditory or

VERBAL COMPREHENSION

a person's capacity to comprehend the language utilized by other people, as ascertained by their receptive vocabulary and linguistics abilities.

TECHNICAL ECLECTICISM

with regard to integrative psychotherapy, the utilization of methods from many different theoretical contexts to manage the involved problems a

THERAPY

1. treatment of physical, cognitive, or behavioral disorders or illness. 2. reference: psychotherapy.

TRANSACTION

noun. 1. any interaction between the person and the social or physical surroundings, particularly during involvement between at least two

TYPICALITY EFFECT

the discovery that individuals are faster to make category judgments regarding common members of a category than they are to

VERBAL CONDITIONING

the conditioning of a verbal reaction via reinforcement, generally rendered in the form of reward or positive attention. The experiment

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.

VERIFICATION

noun. the procedure of mandating the truth or correctness of something, specifically the utilization of unbiased, empirical information to challenge

TEMPORARY COMMITMENT

emergency indeliberate hospitalization of a patient with a cognitive disorder for a limited time to observe or treat them.

THOUGHT INSERTION

a delusion wherein the person believes that thoughts are irresistibly pushed into their mind and designates these thoughts to exterior

TRANSFORMATION

noun. 1. any alteration of appearance, shape, action, or anatomy. 2. the transformation of information to a different type via