Neurology

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ERROR OF HABITUATION

The tendency to continue witha previous response past the point where a transition should ocur.

EUGENICS

The social and political philosophy is based loosely of the evolutionary theory of Darwin and research by Galton.

EXEMPLIFICATION

The strategy a person uses to make other people regard them as highly moral and virtuous.

EXPERIMENT

The series of observations under controlled conditions used to study relationships to draw a causal inference.

EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)

Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.

LEARNING SKILLS

a set of skills used in the process of acquiring new knowledge, typically in a classroom setting.

LEXICAL ACCESS

Another term of vocabulary retrieval, where individuals produce a specific word or phrase from their lexicon of knowledge on prompting…

LINEAR CAUSATION

a simple explanation of the cause and effect hypothesis in that a simple event will have been caused by a…

LOCK-AND-KEY THEORY

the idea that, especially in terms of microbiology, molecules will fit a receptor site exactly, similar to how a certain…

LOOMING

a visual phenomena which occurs as an object moves closer to the observer, this has the effect that the object…

MALEVOLENT TRANSFORMATION

is the (sometimes classes as paranoid) feeling that an individual is living with others or in a society in which…

MASKED DEPRESSION

is the deliberate and (potentially) dangerous hiding or masking of depressive mood swings in the personality of an individual. This…

MATERNAL AGGRESSION

is the process during which a female will protect her offspring in the case another threatens their safety by means…

MECHANISTIC INTCRACTIONISM

is a theory which takes into consideration both dispositional and situational variables when attempting to explain the determinism of behaviours…

MENOPAUSAL DEPRESSION

occurs in women who are typically going through the processes of the menopause with depressive symptoms as the result.

MENTAL MODEL

explains the sometimes graphical representation of the relationships formed between a set of variables, for example a model which explains…

METABOLISM

was first proposed by German physiologist Theodor Schwann (1810 - 1882) and is defined as the least number of physical…

METHODS ANALYSIS

in the context of ergonomics, method analysis is a method of evaluating the method used in a study to identify…

MINIMAX STRATEGY

is part of game theory which says that players will attempt to minimize their loss.

MODAL MODEL OF MEMORY

is one theory of memory which brings together the assumptions of a wide range of theories under one main theory…