LIFE SATISFACTION
the degree which adults (typically) find the lives they lead rich, meaningful, full or of a generally high quality. Improving…
LITERAL PARAPHASIA
a disturbance in the natural flow of speech where elements are replaced with other components making the speech difficult to…
LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE
a step by step approach to mathematical calculations moving from one logical stage to the next in order to solve…
MACHIAVELLIANISM
a belief that ends justify means, however ruthless the consequences and how it affects others.
MANN-WHITNEY U TEST
is a statistical test used in psychology experiments to examine the centrality of all associated ranked data from two independent…
MASTERY ORIENTATION
is the theory which implies an individual who fails at an activity will reason it is due to a lack…
MAZE LEARNING
is a learning process which involves circumnavigating a subject being presented with a variety of false routes into the core…
MEDULLA OBLONGATA
is the most inferior part of the hindbrain region. The medulla oblongata is directly involved in the control of heartbeat,…
MENTAL COMBINATION
is one small part (the final sub phase of the sensorimo stage) of Jean Piaget's larger theory of cognitive development…
METHOD OF ADJUSTMENT
is an experimental technique where a participant is able to adjust a variable stimulus to match a requested standard or…
MILD DEPRESSION
is normally minor degressive disorder or a major depressive episode with few symptoms.
MISEDUCATION
is the communication of knowledge which whilst a professional or parent maybe believe is good and the right action, the…
MODULATORY SITE
in biochemistry, a modulatory site is found on a receptor molecule which when bound with a ligand alters the primary…
MORALITY OF COOPERATION
was first proposed by Jean Piaget, and explains the morality understandings of children between the ages of 10 and 11,…
MOTOR CORTEX,
is found in the front lobe of the brain and is wholly responsible for the control of voluntary movement. There…
MULTIPLE CAUSATION
is the philosophical position which explains that a single cause is unlikely to be the result of a single cause,…
MYELINATION
is the process of forming a myelin sheath around the axon of neurons. Otherwise known as axonal myelination and medullation.
NATURALISM
was first proposed definitively by French writers Emile Zola (1840 - 1902), Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897), and Guy de…
NEGATIVE TRANSFERENCE
is the transference, in psychotherapy of angry and distended emotions from childhood, to the therapist from the client.