METAPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
first proposed by Anna Freud in 1965, an AL PROFILE lists a patients intrapsychic function against a simple list of…
METHOD OF CHOICE
is an experimental technique where a participant is presented with an array of different choices and asked to identify or…
METHODOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM
is a strand of behaviourism which acknowledges the reality of conscious events but suggests the only way of studying them…
METROPOLITAN ACHIEVEMENT TESTS (METROPOLI
is a collection of tests for children at grade 12 in the American education system which aims to evaluate their…
MICROVILLUS
appear throughout the body where high surface area to volume ratio is required, for example on the tongue with taste…
MIGNON DELUSION
is a delusion of young children who believe their families are foster parents whilst their real family is of noble…
MILIEU (MILIEUX)
is an umbrella term used to describe an environment where it is in general or applied to a situation such…
MILLER, NEAL ELGAR OF PEACE AND BLESSEDNESS
is typically associated with the Second Coming of Chris which were fairly prominent in the early Christian Church surfacing between…
MIND-CURE MOVEMENT
was a movement during the 19th century which preached that a healthy body was the result of healthy thinking.
MINIMAL INTERGROUP SITUATION
was first developed by Polish-born British social psychologist Henri Tajfel (1919 - 1982) which is used in research conditions where…
MISSIONARIES AND CANNIBALS
is a problem which has been used during problem solving studies. Three missionaries and three cannibals are on one side…
MIXED SCHIZOPHRENIA
was first proposed by Emil Kraepelin (1856 - 1926) a German psychiatrist and Eugen Bleuler (1857 - 1939) who was…
MODERATOR VARIABLE
with respect to statistics, a moderator variable is entirely unrelated to the criterion variable but it is still related to…
MOLAR APPROACH
implies the importance of comprehensive concepts and the presence of overall frameworks or structures in methodology.
MONOGENISM
is the general theory and belief that all humans present today are descended from two ancestors.