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It is characterized by an extreme startle response which involves yelling, imitative speech and behaviour, involuntary jumping, flinging of the arms and command obedience....

a maladjustment of circadian rhythms, which requires several days for adjusting rest, work, eating, body temperature and adrenocortical secretion cycles to local time.

a negative emotion of an individual's resentment towards a third party likely to steal away a loved one's affections. Romantic relationships are the prototypic...

The courts and other government entities involved in the adjudication of cases involving minors.

an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.

the principle stating that when mental deterioration results from brain disease, the higher and recently developed functions are lost first.

a self-administered survey with multiple-choice questions, which duplicates the clinical test for a behaviour patterns. It measures characteristics of this behaviour pattern such as...

employees' interest enhancement in work tasks by improving the "quality of life" on the job, see quality of work life.

the probability for two events occurring simultaneously.

Janet, one of the first systematic students of neurosis, was bom and raised in Paris, and studied at the University of Paris. There he...