DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT OF OTHER BEHAVIOR (DRO)
Used to decrease the rate of a targeted response. Also called ommission training.
DYADIC RELATIONSHIP
1. A committed 2 person relationship. 2. Relationship between therapist and client.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
The reassurance, encouragement and understanding we give or receive to a person.
EPILEPSY SURGERY
Neurosurgery to the brain that removes the focus for uncontrollable epileptic seizures.
EXPERT POWER
The capacity to influence others deriving from the assumption that the influencer has superior skills. See power.
MENTAL ABILITIES
describes the abilities of- spatial visualization, perceptual speed, number facility, verbal comprehension, word fluency, memory, inductive reasoning as measured by…
MITIGATING FACTOR
is a factor or fact, in the context or a crime or convicted defendant which supports an argument for a…
MULTIDETERMINED BEHAVIOR
describes behaviours of any individual which are considered to be influenced by more than one variable such genetics and environmental…
NEGATIVE ADAPTATION
is the gradual loss of feeling or effectiveness due to prolonged stimulation.
OPERANT CONDITIONING
initially explained by B.F. Skinner, the procedure wherein behavioral alterations take place as an act of the consequences of behavior.…
OVERSHADOWING
noun. with regard to Pavlovian conditioning, a lessening in conditioning with one conditioned stimulant because of the existence of another…
PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING
founded by Ivan Pavlov, a form of acquisition wherein an initially neutral stimulant, the conditioned stimulus, whenever coupled with a…
PERSONALITY DISINTEGRATION
a swift breakdown in character, cohesion, and operating, generally due to specifically distressing life scenarios.
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…