FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…
FORWARD CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. the pairing of 2 stimuli that are presented before the unconditioned stimulus. Also called forward pairing. Compare backward…
FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION
the term that describes the ability to detect a change in the frequency of a pure tone. See also pitch…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY
a form of family therapy that focuses on both family interaction patterns and on the benefits family members may derive…
GABA AGONISTS
These are the compounds that augment the effect at GABA receptor sites and on the action of GABA. There are…
GENDER ASSIGNMENT
the term used for the classification of an infant at birth as either male or female. Children born with ambiguous…
GENDER-ROLE SOCIALIZATION
the conditioning of people to the roles, expectations and the behaviours that society prescribes for males and females.
GENERALIZATION GRADIENT, EXCITATION PATTERN
The spatial pattern of responses to sound in the auditory system. Refers to the envelope of the displacement pattern on…
GENITAL LOVE
a term used in psychoanalytic theory and is the sexually mature love of another person achieved during the genital stage…
GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
The psychological approach that focuses on the dynamic organization of experience into patterns or configurations. Proposed as a revolt against…
GRAPHORRHEA
the term used to describe the writing of long lists of incoherent, meaningless words that will sometimes occurs in the…
GROUP-SERVING BIAS
The cognitive tendencies that contribute to an overvaluing of a person's group, particularly the tendency to credit the group for…
INTERGLUTEAL SEX
The name describing coitus in which the penis is placed between the cheeks of the buttocks, without entry into the…
INTERRATER RELIABILITY
the consistency with which different examiners produce similar ratings in judging the same abilities or characteristics in the same target…
INTRAINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Two or more traits and the variations between them, behaviours, or characteristics of a single person, example or I, aptitude…
INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE
Subjective judgement and knowledge that appears to be based on a gut feeling rather than learning specific. Knowledge is intuitive…
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.