INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION
A serious mental disorder and the confinement of a person in a mental hospital by authorization that is medical and…
IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR
An ion channel that is opened and a receptor protein that includes them when the receptor is activated. See glutamate…
IRONIC MONITORING PROCESS
a component of mental processing that keeps suppressed mental content activated.
ISLANDS OF KNOWLEDGE
organization of knowledge typically found among experts in such fields as engineering and medicine, who shift spontaneously between these using…
ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION
muscle contraction in which tension occurs but the muscle doesn't shorten, for example, when a weightlifter grasps a barbell.
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
IN VITRO FERTILIZATION
Procedure where the egg is removed from the woman and fertilised with sperm and then implanted back to the uterus.…
INTEREST FACTORS
Used in vocational guidance and selecting personnel. They are a person's interests and preferences that are used to indicate personality…
INTERLOCKING PATHOLOGIES
term that is used to describe the unconscious and dysfunctional ways of acting that are present in a couple or…
INTERNAL CONSISTENCY
term used to describe the degree to which all the items on a test measure the same thing.
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF PSYCHOLOGISTS
Professional organisation founded in 1941 to advance psychology and its applications by aiding communication and strengthening bonds worldwide. Recognised as…
INTERPERSONAL ACCOMMODATION
the term that describes the give and take process involved in developing interpersonal relationships.
INTERPHASE
the name for the interval between cell divisions when the nucleus finishes dividing.
INTERSEGMENTAL ARC REFLEX
Fibers of sensory neurons or interneurons that are formed and travel from one spinal segment to another and use motor…
INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
With goal of providing and the different types of program and any number of them, intellectual, emotional, nutritional or benefits…
INTOXICATION DEFENSE
A crime that was committed by a person who was intoxicated and uses it as a defense, and is used…
INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION (IM INJECTION)
A substance that is injected into a muscle by a hypodermic syringe, it is usually injected into the upper arm…
INTRINSIC REINFORCER
A response that produces a reinforcer that is naturally related to it. For example a natural sound is produced when…
INTRUSION ERROR
The recall in a test of the memory and was not an item among the material that was presented for…