Dissociative Disorders

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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

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Statistically, a technique that completely reproduces an interrelationship amongst many correlated variables with a smaller number of "principle components" that

PROPOSITION

In the field of philosophy, a proposition is anything that is either asserted or denied and is capable of being

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

Interpretation and integration of gathered data to come to a conclusion regarding the psychological and physiological state of a particular

PSYCHOSCIENCE

A science dealing with mind, function and behavior. Also a science dealing with mental diseases and disorders and their treatment.

QUESTIONNAIRE

A list of questions soliciting information on a topic.

REALITY

Philosophically, reality is that whice genuinely exists as opposed to those things that only appear or seem to exist.

REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY

Branch of psychology specializing in applying psychological understanding to chronic or disabling heath issues. Promotes prevention and treatment of such

RESERVE CAPACITY

Discrepancy between a subject's maximal ability to perform a given psychological exercise and the actual performance of that exercise.