MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY
attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other…
MIXED-STANDARD SCALE
is a test of behaviour evaluation. Participants are presented with a selection of behaviours and asked to evaluate them based…
NEGATIVE ADAPTATION
is the gradual loss of feeling or effectiveness due to prolonged stimulation.
OBJECTIVE TEST
an examination modeled to induce a particular response, accurate or inaccurate. A true or false examination is one instance of…
PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY
postulated by Albert Bandura as a primary determinant of emotional and motivational conditions and behavioral change, a person's subjective comprehension…
DELAYED EFFECT
An effect that is not seen until some time after the event. See causal latency- remote cause.
DISCONTINUITY THEORY
Compare to continuity hypothesis. See all-or-none learning hypothesis- eureka task.
EMPIRICAL GROUNDING
Practice of anchoring theoretical terms to scientifically measurable events.
EXACT REPLICATION
Repeating an experiment where the goal is to have the conditions as close to the original conditions as possible.
EXTERNAL VALIDITY
The extent that research can be generalized beyond the results to other situations or people.
MANIFEST GOAL
is the openly stated goal or aim of a specific piece of research. This goal will be evaluated at the…
MEDICAL MODEL
is a term in psychology which is the view that abnormal behaviour is the result of physical problems and should…
NEGATIVE ATTITUDE
in the context of psychotherapy, a negative attitude is the feeling of negativity from the therapist towards the client.
OBSERVER DRIFT
gradual step-by-step alterations over time in the observations and documenting of observations made by a specific viewer.
PAPER-AND-PENCIL TEST
an examination wherein the problems or queries are penned, printed, or drawn and the answers are penned too.
PERCENTILE
noun. the position of a score in a distribution coded to show the percentage of instances within the batch which…
DELAYED REINFORCEMENT
Reinforcement that happens after a response. Delay may be signaled or unsignaled.