INTCRTRIAL INTERVAL (ITI)
the term that is used to describe the time between successive presentations of the stimulus in a series of experimental…
INTERGROUP DYNAMICS
The term describing the dynamic rather than static processes that influence the ever changing relationships between groups, including intergroup stereotyping,…
INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER
Impulse disorder with many episodes where a person will fail to resist any aggressive impulses and will commit acts of…
INTERNAL VALIDITY
Degree to which a study or experiment is free from flaws in its internal structure and its results can therefore…
INTEROCEPTION
the name that describes the input of information from interoceptors within the body from the viscera. Compare exteroception.
INTERPERSONAL LEARNING GROUP
the name that describes a group formed to help individuals extend their self-understanding and improve their relationships with others such…
INTERRATER AGREEMENT
Degree that a group of raters will rate an attribute in the same way. Although often used synonymously with interrater…
INTERTHALAMIC ADHESION
Gray matter that is a mass and extends in most individuals across the midline of the third ventricle of the…
INTERVIEWER EFFECTS
An interviewers attributes and the influence and behaviours on the answers of a respondant. The appearance, demeanor, training, age, sex…
INTRACRANIAL SELF-STIMULATION
Brain region and the stimulation by electrodes that are implanted and the individual controls them when they are stimulated. In…
INTRAPSYCHIC CONFLICT
Opposing forces and the clash of them within the psyche, it is a psychoanalytic theory such as wishes, agencies or…
INTROMISSION
Is putting or the act or sending in something especially the insertion of the penis into the vagina. See penetration.…
INTUITIVE TYPE
A functional type characterised in Carl Jung's analytic psychology and is the ability to adapt, by means of unconscious indications…
INVERSION 1
Cognitive development in Jean Piagets theory, see negation. In vision an image is formed on the retina and is reversed.…
INVOLVED GRANDPARENT
A grandparent or type of who has a loving relationship or is warm with his or her grandchildren and takes…
IRRELEVANT LANGUAGE
Observed in some individuals with schizophrenia or autistic disorder. It is a language composed of sounds, phrases or words that…
ISOLATED EXPLOSIVE DISORDER
An impulse-controlled disorder characterised by a single discrete episode in which the individual commits a violent catastrophic act such as…
ISOTRETINOIN
an analog of vitamin A used for fighting acne, which is resistant to other therapies. Controversially the use of isotretinoin…
INTERDENTAL
1. a term describing and denoting a speech sound made with the tongue placed between the upper and lower front…