Neurology

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GENITAL AROUSAL IN SLEEP

the action penile erection in men and clitoral enlargement and vaginal lubrication in women that occur during REM sleep when…

GESTALT

the entire perceptual configuration made up of elements that are integrated and interactive as to confer properties on the entire…

GLUCOSE

Name of a soluble sugar that is abundant in nature and is a major energy source for body tissues. Brain…

GRADIENT OF TEXTURE

the term that applies to the progressively finer appearance of textures and surface grains of objects as the viewer moves…

GROUP SOCIALIZATION THEORY

Theory of development of personality where children are socialised by peers and influence from adults filters down to the peer…

INTERDEPENDENT SELF-CONSTRUAL

View of the self that emphasises a person's embeddedness in a network of social relationships and downplays their unique traits…

INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE

The distance that people choose to keep between themselves and other people. The distance is smaller for friends and relatives…

INTERVIEWER EFFECTS

An interviewers attributes and the influence and behaviours on the answers of a respondant. The appearance, demeanor, training, age, sex…

INTRUJECTIVE DEPRESSION

Individuals who are depressed and have angry and punitive feelings toward themselves. Compare anaclitic depression

ISOTRETINOIN

an analog of vitamin A used for fighting acne, which is resistant to other therapies. Controversially the use of isotretinoin…

JOHN HENRY EFFECT

an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.

KINESTHETIC RECEPTOR

Found in muscles, tendons and joints and any of the sensory receptors that monitor the position and movement of muscles

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

The term is preferred by those who emphasize the active role of the child as a learner with considerable innate…

EYEWITNESS MEMORY

refers to an individual's unique recollection of a specific event or occurance from memory, typically associated with criminal events, such…

FACT RETRIEVAL

is a process through which the majority (if not all individuals) will under-take during their lifetime being the process of…

FALSE BELIEF

has a wide range of potential definitions mostly dependent on the application to real-life, for example, in an psychological application,…

FAMILY THERAPY

involves the whole family becoming involved in the counselling process, instead of focussed efforts looking at a single individual, indeed,…

FEELING

1. The self contained experience of phenomena. The feelings are subjective and are independent of the sensory modality. 2. Any…

FIELD RESEARCH

the term that is used to describe any research that is undertaken outside a laboratory and in a natural, social…

FITTS LAW

a principle of motor control where activities done quicker can be less accurate than those activities done slower. It is…