FLAGELLATION
a term that is applied to one person who whips another or submits to whipping. It can be a form…
FOCUS OF CONVENIENCE
seen in George Kelly's personality theory and is the name of the set of phenomena to which any given theory…
FOREWARNING OF PERSUASIVE POSITION
the term applied to the receipt of information that a subsequent communication will contain arguments for a particular attitudinal position.
FRAGMENTATION
a term that describes the separation or the division of something into pieces or fragments. It is the name of…
FREQUENCY POLYGON
the name given to the graph that depicts a statistical distribution that is made up of lines connecting the peaks…
FULFILLMENT MODEL
a basic model of personality theory based on assumptions of primary motivation being self-fulfilment such as the drive to fulfil…
FUNCTIONAL JOB ANALYSIS (FJA)
Form of job analysis where tasks are rated on degrees of complexity they entail in dealing with people, data and…
GAIN-LOSS THEORY OF ATTRACTION
Theory of interpersonal attraction where a person's like or dislike for another is affected by their estimation of them and…
GENDER CONSISTENCY
the understanding that your own and other people's sex is fixed across situations regardless of superficial changes in appearance or…
GENERAL ABILITY
a term that is used to describe the measurable ability believed to underlie skill in handling all types of intellectual…
GENITAL STIMULATION
Factors of sexual arousal including integration of male and female genital reflexes, odours, hormone secretions, sights, sounds and tactile and…
GHOST SICKNESS
the name of a culture bound syndrome in Native American communities. Symptoms can include a preoccupation with death and the…
GOAL GRADIENT
These are the systematic changes in behavior occurring as the function of spatial or temporal distance from the reinforcer.
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…