ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD THEORY
The theory that humans have a limited ability to handle environmental stimuli.
ETHNOCENTRISM
A tendency to malign and reject another ethnic group while glorifying your own. See ingroup bias- racism.
EXCITATORY CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioning where a conditioned stimulus acts as a signal that an unconditioned stimulus will follow.
EXPLANATION
The account to provide meaning for an event or phenomenom. See scientific explanation.
LEADERSHIP THEORIES
Theories which attempt to apply rules and ideals to explain the behaviours of leaders oaf group. Primary theory groups include…
LESBIAN FEMINISM
a theology which focuses on the right of women to have the right to control and then identify as the…
LONELINESS
a sometimes long lasting feeling of having no alternative to turn to in times of distress and depression. Generally classed…
MAINSTREAMING
the theory that by placing children with either (sometimes both) physical and cognitive conditions which impair their ability to learn…
MARIANISMO
Is an historic view of females and the 'perfect' females characteristics including- submissiveness, selflessness, chastity, hyper femininity and the complete…
MATCHING HYPOTHESIS
is a psychological theory which implies relationships are formed between two people who equal or are very similar in terms…
MEASUREMENT ERROR
is any difference between the observed value and the real or true value which leads to the skewing of results…
MEMORY ILLUSION
defines the process where a memory or event becomes distorted and the person will then remember something that never actually…
MENTAL HEALTH
is defined by the World Health Organisation as: A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely…
MESOSYSTEM
was first proposed by U.S. psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917 - 2005) who implies that groups, clubs and institutions outside of…
METHODOLOGICAL OBJECTIVISM VERSUS METHOD
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Robert I. Watson (1909 - 1980) is a prescriptive dimension which can be used to…
MIND READING
is a form of psychic power, or extrasensory ability which allows one individual to read the thought processes in the…