KILOBYTOPHOBIA
fear of using a computer. There is sometimes accounts for a refusal or reluctance to use computer resources. See computer…
KLEIN, MELANIE
Austrian born British psychoanalyst and was a pioneer in child analysis she was the first therapist to use play as…
KONIG BARS
Visual acuity is assessed by a grating pattern of black and white bars, Karl Rudolf Konig 1832-1901 German born French…
KUMHO TIRE CO V PATRICK CARMICHAEL
The Supreme Court ruling that extended the gatekeeper ROLF judgeds to cover both scientific expert testimony as established in Daubert…
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…