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IN UTERO

The term that is used to describe being in the uterus, that is, before birth

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM

a health care team made up of professionals from different disciplines to provide therapeutic approach to problems and matters. Information

INTERITEM RELIABILITY

the internal consistency reliability. Indexed 2 ways. 1. Average intercorrelation of objects with each other. 2. Reliability of the mean

INTERNAL CAPSULE

Band of nerve fibres in the corpus striatum extending between the caudate nucleus and golbus pallidus. Contains fibres from parts

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED PSYCHOL

Oldest international association of professional psychologists, founded 1920 to promote the science and practice of applied psychology and to facilitate

INTEROCULAR TRANSFER

The ability of an after effect to be produced by stimulation from one eye but is experienced by looking through

INTERPERSONAL THEORY

Psychoanalysis. Based on a belief that people's interaction with other people, especially significant others and determines the sense of security,

INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN

Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured

INTERVAL TIMER

The time between two events and the instrument that measures it

INTIMATE ZONE

The small distance zone in social psychology and adopted by those in very close relationships, such of that of mother

INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS

Certain nuclei located in the medullary lamina and is internal, a layer that is nearly vertical and in the thalamus

INTRINSIC ACTIVITY

1. Efficacy and the measure of a drug receptor complex and the pharmacological effect it produces. 2. Response to the

INTROVERSION

Internal private orientation toward the world of ones self and the inner thoughts of ones feelings, rather than towards the

INVARIANT SEQUENCE

An order that is unchanging and in stage theories of development and in the order in which the stages of

INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT

A mental facility where an individual is kept against his or her wishes. Individuals are committed in this way, it

IONAMIN

Name for phentermine and is the trade name

IRONIC MENTAL CONTROL

the phenomenon to suppress some mental content from consciousness results in an unexpectedly high level of awareness of that content.

ISHIHARA TEST FOR COLOR BLINDNESS

It is a test that uses a series of plates (Ishihara plates) where numbers or letters are formed by dots

ISOMERS

molecules identical in chemical composition, though different in the spatial orientation of their atoms (they are stereoisomers).

ITEM SELECTION

test- item selection for incorporating in a test battery based upon the final psychometric properties of the test battery.