PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE
Also known as the projective method, projective technique is any personality assessment process that uses a fixed series of random…
PROXY VARIABLE
A proxy variable can serve in the place of another if they have been shown to have substantially the same…
PSYCHOANALYST
A specially trained therapist who utilizes Freudian theories and practices to treat mental disorders. In the U.S., psychoanalytically training begins…
PSYCHOLOGICAL SKILLS TRAINING (PST)
Psychological Skills Training of PST is a program of practicing of psychological skills as they relate to athletics and performance.…
PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 1
Erik Erikson was the first to formulate the theory that personality development is a process influenced by many factors throughout…
QUARTILE DEVIATION
A measure of dispersion. The deviation is described as half the distance between the first and third quartiles.
RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY
A person's vocabulary defined by words he or she can understand, identify and process. It may be more extensive than…
RECURRENT DEPRESSION
An extreme depressive malady in which two or more major bouts of depression have occurred.
RELEASE THEORY OF HUMOR
A theory positing that individuals can laugh to release built-up psychic energy.
REPLICATION
One of the main tenets of the scientific method; repeating an experiment to ensure that the results can be attained…
REVERSIBILITY
Possibly being expressed in terms of negation or compensation, a mental process which allows the reversal of a chain of…
ROLE DIFFERENTIATION
In communities or various other social models, the steady rise in the quantity of tasks and decline in the range…
SACCULAR IIIN SACRAL DIVISION
Nerves associated with the parasympathetic nervous system which begin at the spinal cord in the lower back (sacral) area. Compare…
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
Reckoning of an event with regards to a recognized group of scientific concepts, details, and assumptions. Standard types of explanation…
SECONDARY ELABORATION
Mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream by means of which…