INTERPERSONAL GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY
a group approach to treating psychological, behavioural and emotional problems emphasising the curative influence of interpersonal learning. Also called interactive…
INTERPRETIVE RESPONSE
a reply by the therapist that will summarise the meaning or motive of a statement by the client.
INTERSTITIAL CELL
The spaces that are between other tissues and any cells that fill them and other structures. The testis and the…
INTRACONSCIOUS PERSONALITY
Identity disorder and the dissociative phenomenon in which one functioning personality on a level that is subconscious and aware of…
INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
The intelligence involved in self understanding, ones motives, ones skills and also reflecting upon oneself etc. Intelligence that is intrapersonal…
INTUITIVE JUDGMENT
Subjective feelings and the decision reached on the basis the cannot be articulated easily and not fully conscious. See intuition
INVERSE RELATIONSHIP
A relationship which is negative when one variable decreases and the other variable increases, or vice versa
INVOLUNTARY TURNOVER
An organization and the number of employees who leave involuntarily in a given period. Involuntary turnover is the distinction usually…
IPSATIVE METHOD
A procedure or type of research in which the responses of a person is compared only to other responses of…
IRRATIONAL TYPE
one of the two basic categories for disfunctional type, which comprise of the intuitive and the sensation types. Compare rational…
ISOHEDONIC TRAP
a flaw in Berlyne's theory of aesthetic preference that stimuli that produce equal arousal should be equally preferred.
INFORMATION SEEKER
term that was identified in 1948 by US educational theorist Kenneth D. Benne, 1908-1992 and 20th-century US social psychologist Paul…
INTERGLUTEAL SEX
The name describing coitus in which the penis is placed between the cheeks of the buttocks, without entry into the…
INTERMETAMORPHOSIS SYNDROME
This the name that is given to the misidentification syndrome characterised by delusions that some people have been transformed both…
INTERNAL INEQUITY
Name for the situation where employers compensate certain employees at levels that are unfair relative to other employees in the…
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE (IUPSYS)
Affiliation of professional psychological organisations to develop the exchange of ideas and scientific information between psychologists from different countries and…