Dissociative Disorders

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ALTER EGO

1. An additional character or facet of someone which occurs metaphorically as their replacement or advocate, with diverse attributes. 2.…

ANXIETY

a mood state characterized by worry, apprehension, and somatic symptoms. Similar to the tension caused when an individual anticipates impending…

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

the use of books, journals, documents, data sets, manuscripts, and other records or cultural artifacts in scientific research, that do…

ATTITUDE

in social psychology, an enduring and general evaluation or cognitive schema relating to an object, person, group, issue, or concept.…

AUTOMATIC DRAWING

the act of drawing images, doodles, or objects while in a hypnotic trance or in a situation in which the…

AWARENESS

n. refers to a consciousness of internal or external events or experiences, that is thought by some to separate human…

BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION

n. first and foremost, a record of behavior from one day to the next. This gives the observer an idea…

BEHAVIORAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

n. the study of the endocrine system in relation to behavior. There is a relationship between how hormones are secreted…

BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD

n. the collection and analysis of an account on a person. It may be the whole or a portion of…

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

a term which describes nonlinear causal relationships, in the way that the fluttering of a butterfly's wings in one side…

CONCENTRATIVE MEDITATION

a kind of meditation that concentrates on a sole stimulant- a certain visual- a certain noise, mantra, term, etc.- a…

CONFLICT

noun. 1. with regard to psychology, the conflict of differing or contrastive feeling-based or inspirational drives in the same person.…

CONTEXT

1. typically, the state or scenario wherein a certain sensation happens. 2. with regard to language, the portions of a…

CORRECTIVE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

an idea stemming from psychoanalysis which postulates that patients acquire significant and intensive modification via new interpersonal affective events they…

COVERT MODELING

a stealth conditioning process wherein the patient pictures a role model, visualizes acting as this individual may, so because of…

D PRIME

a gauge of someone's capacity to pick up on indicators- more particularly, a gauge of vulnerability or discriminability stemming from…

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

behavior that is unlike the majority of a healthy human population- behaviors which could pose a threat to one's livelihood…

ACTIVATING EVENT

in logical emotive behavior treatment, a happening which is existing, former, or expected, that prompts irrational ideas and troublesome feelings,

ADVOCACY

noun. conversing or performing on the part of a person or mass of people to support their liberties or illustrate…

ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR

behavior carried out for the advantage of other people. Selfless behavior consists of a variety of approaches, such as expression…