GRID ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (GRID OD)
The comprehensive organisational development intervention. Aim is to increase a manager's concern for people and production to improve effectiveness of…
GROWTH GROUP
the term that describes the group that focuses on the growth and development of each individual member. See encounter group;…
INTERINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
the name describing the variations between people in one or more traits, behaviors or characteristics such as variations in intelligence).…
INTERROLE CONFLICT
The role conflict that occurs when individuals have one role or more when within a group and the behaviours and…
INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
The intelligence involved in self understanding, ones motives, ones skills and also reflecting upon oneself etc. Intelligence that is intrapersonal…
INVARIANT SEQUENCE
An order that is unchanging and in stage theories of development and in the order in which the stages of…
JAMES-LANGE THEORY
This theory hypothesizes that there are many psychological responses as there are different intra-psychic feelings and that each of these…
KNOWLEDGE OF PERFORMANCE (KP)
verbalized information about the nature of the movement pattern that is used to achieve an aim.
LANGUAGE TRANSFER
Negative transfer occurs when differences between the two languages structures lead to systematic errors in the learning of the second…
EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION (ESP)
otherwise known as 'ESP', is the alleged ability to sense events occuring around oneself, through an extra sense or means…
FACE-HAND TEST
involves the examining individual touching the individual's face at the same time as touching the back of their hand; this…
FACTOR STRUCTURE MATRIX
is the hypothetical construction of a structure which is normally associated with factor analysis where the factor structure is a…
FALSE SELF
was one of the primary canons postulated by the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott (1896 - 1971) in the larger and…
FAST MAPPING
is the seemingly fast ability for a young people, especially babies to learn entirely new words on the general understanding…
FEMININITY
a person in possession of social and role behaviours that are presumed to be characteristic of a girl or woman,…
FILTER THEORY
1. The theory of attention proposing that unattended channels of information are filtered prior to identification. 2. An explanation in…
FOLIE A TROIS
Another shared psychotic disorder where 3 people in the same family share the same or similar delusions. French for triple…
FORGETTING
the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.…