NUTRITIONAL EFFECTS ON INTELLIGENCE
the impacts of nescessary vitamins and minerals on individual's degrees of intellect. Research implies that slight nutritional deficiencies have small,…
NAIVE HEDONISM
is the second stage, in the preconvention level of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development where children begin to make their…
NARCOLEPSY
is considered a neural disorder which consists of excessive daytime sleepiness which are paired with very brief attacks of sleep…
NASOPHARYNX
is a region of the pharynx which can be found above the level of the soft palate which is closed…
NATIONALISM
is a sense of proud or allegiance to ones own nation and everything the nation has as unique, the culture…
NATURAL LANGUAGE CATEGORY
is a way of classifying things, people or other objects by their semantic structure in categories which are distinct from…
NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE PSYCHOLOGIE
was first debated in the 19th century by German psychologists which took on laboratory techniques which were appropriate and useful…
NECROPHILIA
defines a sexual interest or the physical sexual contact with dead bodies, irrespective of the sex. In some cases, necrophiliacs…
NEED-PRESS THEORY
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Henry Alexander Murray (1893 - 1988) who proposed this explanation of behaviour in terms of…
NEGATIVE HALLUCINATION
is the experience of being unable to visualize or see a person or object when directly looking at it, typically…
NEGATIVE TRANSFER
describes any process which bars or obstructs previous learning with present learning.
NEOBEHAVIORISM
is one branch of psychology which was based primarily on logical positivism which supported the development of comprehensive theories and…
NERVE DEAFNESS PERCEPTIVE IMPAIRMENT AND NERVE LOSS SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS
otherwise known as nerve impairment. See adult sensorineural lesions- childhood sensorineural lesions, presbycusis.
NERVUS TERMINALIS
typically originate near the olfactory epithelium cells and are a collection nerve fibres.
NEURAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
is one theory of brain development that implies cognitive development results as a balance between the neural substrates and environment…
NEURAL SATIATION
is the tendency for a neuron to respond weakly after the conductance of a strong stimulation.
NEUROCRINE
describes neurones which secrete agonists such as neurotransmitters at their synapses.
NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION
is the physical gap between a motor neuron and the muscle fibre which it stimulates. Once a stimulus arrives at…