NORMATIVE-REEDUCATIVE STRATEGY
with regard to cultural psychology, the concept ascertaining that societal alterations ought to be based upon active re-education of persons…
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY (NGRI)
a last judgment made in a courtroom if the defendant has been deemed to exhibit an absence the cognitive capacity…
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE (NMR)
the reaction of atomic nuclei to alterations in a strong magnetic field. The atoms emit weak electric signals, that can…
NULL HYPOTHESIS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING (NHST)
calculation of an examination of significance to determine the tenability of the null hypothesis.
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
first proposed by U.S. psychiatrists Wilhelm Reich (1897 - 1957), Otto Kernberg, and Heinz Kohut (1913 - 1981), and U.S.…
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ORGANIZATION
is a group of professional psychologists which attempt to improve the delivery of health services to the general public, it…
NATURAL KILLER CELL (NK CELL)
is one of the many types of lymphocyte white blood cell in the human body which destroy infected or cancerous…
NATURE-NURTURE CONTROVERSY
is a philosophical debate which continuously argues the relative contributions of hereditary and constitutional factors (nature) and their counterpart environmental…
NECROMANCY
is the process whereby a necromancer can supposedly conjure or cast a spell which will re-awaken the dead.
NEED TO EVALUATE
is characterized with an individuals insatiable desire to evaluate their surroundings and situations, especially new ones. The need to evaluate…
NEGATIVE EMOTION
is usually an unpleasant or unhappy emotion which is evoked in individuals to express a negative affect towards an event…
NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE
is a stereotype (widely held belief) about an individual or group which displays them in a poor light and is…
NEO PERSONALITY INVENTORY (NEO-PI)
was first developed by U.S. psychologists Paul T. Costa (1942 - ) and Robert R. McCrae (1949 - ), the…
NEONATAL IMITATION
is the tendency for new-born babies to reproduce, imitate or copy behaviours which they observe.
NERNST EQUATION
is used to calculate the equilibrium potential at a membrane as proposed by German chemistry, Walther Hermann Nernst (1864 -…
NERVOUS HABIT
are typically actions which exert a degree of control over a situation such as biting ones nails.
NEURAL CHAIN
is a representation of a neural circuit where the neurons involved are attached end to end.