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…
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…
MOTOR PLANNING
is the ability for the brain to actively plan ahead and complete activities unfamiliar to it.
MUSTURBATION
first proposed by U.S. psychotherapist Albert Ellis (1913 - ), musturbation is the tendency for an individual to meet often…