INTERVIEWER EFFECTS
An interviewers attributes and the influence and behaviours on the answers of a respondant. The appearance, demeanor, training, age, sex…
INTRUJECTIVE DEPRESSION
Individuals who are depressed and have angry and punitive feelings toward themselves. Compare anaclitic depression
ISOTRETINOIN
an analog of vitamin A used for fighting acne, which is resistant to other therapies. Controversially the use of isotretinoin…
JOHN HENRY EFFECT
an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.
KINESTHETIC RECEPTOR
Found in muscles, tendons and joints and any of the sensory receptors that monitor the position and movement of muscles
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
The term is preferred by those who emphasize the active role of the child as a learner with considerable innate…
EYEWITNESS MEMORY
refers to an individual's unique recollection of a specific event or occurance from memory, typically associated with criminal events, such…
FACT RETRIEVAL
is a process through which the majority (if not all individuals) will under-take during their lifetime being the process of…
FALSE BELIEF
has a wide range of potential definitions mostly dependent on the application to real-life, for example, in an psychological application,…
FAMILY THERAPY
involves the whole family becoming involved in the counselling process, instead of focussed efforts looking at a single individual, indeed,…
FIELD RESEARCH
the term that is used to describe any research that is undertaken outside a laboratory and in a natural, social…
FOCAL ATTENTION
name given to the attention we focus on a certain stimuli while disregarding the rest. Information in our attention span…
FOREIGNER TALK
the term applied to the way some people will talk to a foreigner. They will use short sentences, simple grammar…
FORMBOARD TEST
the name that describes the test where a person has to fit blocks into depressions of the shapes in a…
FREE-FLOATING ATTENTION
Found in psychoanalysis and in other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the analyst's or therapist's state of evenly suspended attention during…
FRUSTRATION
1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy…
FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
1. Assessment to identify circumstances and consequences associated with a certain behaviour. Defined in measurable terms. Used to design treatments…