MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI)
is the transition period between normal healthy aging and the start of early dementia, characterized with abnormal memory impairment for…
MILK LETDOWN REFLEX
is the reflex action of secreting oxytocin as a response to suckling which leads to the release of milk.
MIND READING
is a form of psychic power, or extrasensory ability which allows one individual to read the thought processes in the…
MINIMAL AUDIBLE PRESSURE (MAP)
is the minimum level of a tone which can be presented via headphones to a participant at the minimum threshold…
MINNESOTA SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE (MSQ)
is a questionnaire which examines the level of job satisfaction a work has, first developed for the University of Minnesota…
MIRROR TRANSFERENCE
is used in the treatment of narcissistic personality disorders where a patients grandiose self is reactivated in line with an…
MIXED EPISODE
is an episode which typically lasts at least 1 week in duration and which displays symptoms of both a manic…
MODELING EFFECT
describes the effect where the experimenter influences the response of the participant without them knowing.
MONOCULAR REARING
is the process of ensuring that an animal develops, once born, with the use of only one eye, by either…
MOOD-ALTERING DRUGS
are drugs or substances which have the effect of altering the mood of the individual which takes them by usually…
MORAL MASOCHISM
results from an apparently repressed Oedipus complex which leads to the unconscious need for punishment by authority figures.
MORBIDITY RATE
defines an incidence of a specific disease or condition expressed as a ratio of a population.
MORPHOPHILIA
describes a sexual interest in a partner who's body characteristics differ greatly from ones own.
MOTHER FIGURE
in the context of psychoanalytic theory, a mother figure is a person which an individual transfers their feelings onto as…
MOTION PARALLAX
is a depth cue which explains the movements of interrelated elements in a scene which occurs when an observer moves…