ENTITY THEORY
Belief that psychological attributes are fixed and essential rather than developing gradually.
EPISODIC MEMORY
The memory for a specific and personally experinced event whose retirval relies on cues of asociation. See autobiographical memory- autonectic…
ESCAPE BEHAVIOR
A response that is designed to move away from aversive stimulus by withdrawal or entering a fantasy world. Compare avoidance…
EVALUATION RESEARCH
Applying scientific principles, methods and theories to identify, describe, measure and predict importnat factors to develop human service delivery systems.…
EXISTENTIAL JUDGMENT
Philosophy. Judgement dealing with existence, origin and the nature of things.
EXPERIMENTAL NEUROSIS
The disordered emotional or behavioural state and high anxiety levels seen in animals in experiments.
EXTERNAL VALIDITY
The extent that research can be generalized beyond the results to other situations or people.
LEARNING TYPES
Different styles of learning such as some groups of people prefer visual based learning whilst others prefer textbook based learning.…
LINGUISTIC MINORITY
a group of people who are a minority in their society to still speak a minority language.
LOCUS OF CONTROL
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Julian Rotter, the locus of control is a construct which attempts to explain the reason…
LOUDNESS SUMMATION
is the representation of each individual part of an overall sound displayed to indicate their portion of the final loudness…
MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY
is the application of an understanding of behavioural psychology in human beings to executive and managerial positions to help support…
MASS REFLEX 1
is usually a reflex action which occurs on a subconscious level in the human body as a result of a…
MATING BEHAVIOR
otherwise known as animal courtship, mate selection, coiulatorv behaviour which typically arises during the processes of reproduction. Different species can…
MEDICAL AUDIT
is the systematic and usually thorough evaluation of the entire diagnostic, treatment processes and the caring general process of an…
MENTAL ABILITIES
describes the abilities of- spatial visualization, perceptual speed, number facility, verbal comprehension, word fluency, memory, inductive reasoning as measured by…
MENTAL REPRESENTATION
is an entirely hypothetical being or entity which, philosophers believe stand for- perception, thought, memory and other mental processes during…
METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS
is the conscious understanding and awareness of the full formal properties of a language such as English or French, including…