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