COVERT EXTINCTION
a covert conditioning process wherein the patient initially visualizes engaging in an undesired action and subsequently visualizes not being praised…
CROSS-ADAPTATION
noun. The modification in the vulnerability to one stimulant elicited by acclimation to another stimulant.
CULTURAL DRIFT
the slow, eventual, unregulated altering of a society, with its unique traditions, morals, and behavioral trends, in time. Commonly referred…
CUMULATIVE CONTINUITY
the procedure wherein a person's behaviors generate outcomes which build up in time and help them to progress across life…
DEBRIEFING
The process after a research project where the participants are given more details about the project.
ABSOLUTE JUDGMENT
a judging process in which something is objectified as being one-dimensional and classified based on a single trait. (see also:…
ACTIVE DECEPTION
the manner of deliberately confusing study volunteers, for instance, by providing them with incorrect data regarding the objective of the…
ADAPTIVE STRATEGY CHOICE MODEL (ASCM)
a theoretical design founded by American psychologists Robert S. Siegler and Christopher Shipley, which postulates the existence of numerous methods…
AESTHETIC PREFERENCE
the magnitude to which a particular stimulant is selected over other stimulants for cosmetic purposes.
ALLOSTERIC MODULATION
the joining of a chemical (referred to as an allosteric modulator) to a select spot on a receptor complex in…
AMBIVALENCE OF AN ATTITUDE
the magnitude to which the assessment feedback corresponding with a disposition are contradictory to each other. If the assessment feedback…
ANALYSIS OF THE RESISTANCE
a minor undertaking in the field of psychological assessment wherein a person's propensity to continually subdue unconscious urges and encounters…
ANOREXIA NERVOSA
an eating disorder, which occurs frequently in adolescent girls, involving the refusal of food, a drive for thinness, perceptual disturbances…
APPETITIVE STIMULUS
In positive reinforcement (see positive reinforcement) this represents an unconditioned stimulus that an organism will approach. The effectiveness of this…
ARGUMENT QUALITY
the degree to which an argument elicits primarily positive evaluative responses toward the attitude and deemphasizes primarily negative ones. The…
ASIAN INFLUENZA
a type of influenza caused by the II2N2 strain of influenza virus, which was initially recorded in north China in…