NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR
behaviors which can dictate a person's outlooks or emotions without the need for speech. Non-verbal behaviors can be apmother or…
NUCLEOLUS ( NUCLEOLI)
the formative composition inside a the nucleus of a cell that is the place where ribosomes are assembled.
NUMERICAL COMPETENCE
the capacity retained by some animals to recognize and name the cardinal numbers correlated with varying amounts of items and…
NYCTOPHILIA
noun. An extreme favorability for night time or the dark. Commonly referred to as noctiphilia.
NAIVE PARTICIPANT
is a participant to a study which is not aware of the experimental hypothesis and who has not participated in…
NARCOMANIA
is the pathological (becoming unhealthy) desire for narcotic based drugs to relieve pain.
NATIONAL ACADCMY OF SCIENCES (NAS)
was founded in 1863 by the U.S. Congress and was expended in 1916 to include the National Research Council, the…
NATURAL LAW THEORY
in the context of Ethics and Political Philosophy the Natural Law Theory implies that there are some natural laws which…
NAUSEA GRAVIDARUM, MORON
an historic name for an individual with a mild mental health disorder.
NECROPHILIC FANTASIES
primarily occur with males, although females have reported such fantasies before and they typically revolve around having either heterosexual or…
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
is an umbrella term used to describe a range of meanings. One such being evaluating the needs of a community…
NEGATIVE IMAGERY
normally consists of mental images which denote a failure, error or an unwanted outcome.
NEGATIVE TRANSFERENCE
is the transference, in psychotherapy of angry and distended emotions from childhood, to the therapist from the client.
NEOCEREBELLUM
only appears in mammals containing fibres which communicate with the nuclei found in the pons.
NEONATIVISM
is the philosophical standpoint that most knowledge, for example some aspects of language are innate and do not require any…
NERVE ENDING
is the termination point of an axon of which there are many types, for example the howlerspray ending and muscle…