PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy strong on psychoanalytical tradition; viewing individuals as reacting to unconscious forces. Common traits of the psychodynamic approach are an…
PSYCHOLOGIST
A professionally trained doctor in psychology. Successfully trained psychologists have a doctorate in philosophy (PhD), psychology (PsyD) or education (EdD).…
REAFFERENCE PRINCIPLE
Conceptually, the explanation of the regulation and interaction of internal signals and sensory signals to direct and coordinate body movements.…
RECIPROCAL ALTRUISM
A type of helping behavior that is perpetuated when one individual helps another at some future time the second individual…
REGRESSION EFFECT
Proclivity of a subject who scores either very high or very low on a test to perform more toward the…
REPRESENTATIVENESS HEURISTIC
Psychological term in which people judge the probability of a hypothesis by ascertaining how well the hypothesis mimics available data.…
RESPONSE COMPETITION
Hindrance of choice response tasks by extraneous stimuli, resulting in production of a response which slows reaction time in attaining…
RETINAL IMAGE
Variable resolution image which takes shape on the retina as the eye focuses on an object.
RIGHTING REFLEX
The innate ability of an organism to assume an optimal position when it has been unbalanced or knocked over. Also…
ROLE SHIFT
In interactions between two people in a relationship, one party will adopt the characteristics and behavioral patterns of the second…
SALIROMANIA
Sexual fetish or paraphilia wherein erotic pleasure is derived from soiling or disheveling the object of desire, especially an attractive…
SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY
Characteristics of logic and sound judgment which distinguish or should distinguish scientific investigation.
SECONDARY MOTIVATION
Catalyst constituted by personal or social enticements instead of dominant physiological requirements.
SELECTIVE AMNESIA
Loss of memory regarding certain issues, events, and individuals which is too wide-ranging to be accounted for by typical forgetfulness.…
PRIMARY DEGENERATIVE DEMENTIA
Primary Degenerative Dementia or DDD is described in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III as dementia that has…