DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT OF LOW RATE (DRI)
Reinforcement when response to stimuli is low. Also called differential reinforcement of long response times.
DUAL PROCESS THEORY
1. A theory that response to stimuli allows control of behaviour in 2 stages. 2. Memoery theory. Operation of 2…
EGO-DEFENSIVE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE
The role that an attitude plays in maintaining and enhancing our self esteem.
ETHNOPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Where issues related to ethnic and cultural variations in using and response to psychoative agents is considered.
EXPERIMENTER EXPECTANCY EFFECT
Where the experimenter expects certain results and causes errors in research.
LIFE-HISTORY METHOD
an interview which takes a structured approach to obtaining historical data about events when evaluating an individuals current functioning.
MARGINALIZATION
the process through which the marginal groups and their members are identified as not being apart of the main group.
MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING
in the context of psychotherapies, multicultural counselling is a type of therapy which takes into account both racial and ethnic…
NEGATIVE ACCELERATION
is the binary opposite to positive acceleration where a situation which should change the rate of development of a variable…
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
an abstract continuous probability distribution which is na act of two parameters: the expected value, p, and the variance, o.…
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE
a dimension of the big five personality model and the five-factor personality model which references single variants in the propensity…
PERSONAL ORIENTATION INVENTORY (POI)
an inventory aimed to measure self-actualization. It contains 150 objects which each consist of two statements depicting values or actions.…
DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERN
A pattern revealed by a population variable such as birth and death rates, income, medical health etc.