KINESTHETIC SENSE (Movement Sense)
Kinesthesis, literally “feeling of movement,” is the sense that provides the brain with information concerning the contracting and stretching of…
KINETIC DISTURBANCES
Used in this book to denote disturbances of movement found in either organic or functional disorders.Akinesia is a reduction of…
KIRKBRIDE, THOMAS (1809-83)
Kirkbride, a pioneer in American psychiatry, obtained his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, then served as physician in…
KOFFKA, KURT (1886-1941)
Koffka, the major spokesman for Gestalt psychology, received his psychological training at the University of Berlin and obtained his Ph.D.…
KORSAKOFF’S SYNDROME (Amne- sic-Confabulatory Syndrome)
An organic psychosis occurring primarily in chronic alcoholics and victims of severe blows on the head (head trauma) but also…
KRAEPELIN, EMIL (1856-1926)
Rraepelin, the great classifier of mental illnesses, was bom in Neustrelitz, Germany and studied medicine at Wurzburg and Munich. He…
KRAFFT-EBING, RICHARD VON(1840-1902)
Krafft-Ebing, chiefly noted for his study of sexual pathology, was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied at Prague, Heidelberg, and…
KIN RECOGNITION
Individuals are able to recognize those that they have interacted with during development but fail to recognize related individuals with…
KINESTHETIC IMAGERY
Dynamic is the cognitive creation of the feeling of movements while physically moving, like a figure skater may imagine the…
KLEINE-LEVIN SYNDROME
Symptoms may last for days to weeks, include excessive food intake, irritability, disorientation, lack of energy and hypersensitivity to noise.…
KNOWLEDGE BASE
A repository of factual and heuristic information that guides an organization's approach to specific problems or challenges, to research the…
KOPFERMANN CUBES
A hexagon equally divided into six triangles is one example. The gestalt principles of perception of two dimensional triangles rather…
KUNDT'S RULES
When bisecting a horizontal line using one eye, the observer tends to place the midpoint too near the nasal side…
KANIZSA FIGURE
A common example is the Kanizsa triangle which is induced by three black circles placed in the apexes of a…
KENNARD PRINCIPLE
This principle that brain damage sustained early in life is less debilitating that brain damage sustained in later life, presumably…
KIN SELECTION
Individuals share 50% of their genes with a parent or sibling, so if an individual risks its own ability to…
KINESTHETIC RECEPTOR
Found in muscles, tendons and joints and any of the sensory receptors that monitor the position and movement of muscles
KLEINIAN ANALYSIS
Concepts such as internalization, object reactions, the depressive position, idealization and the paranoid position, and is psychotherapy in accordance with…