FRONTAL LOBE
one of the four main lobes of each cerebral hemisphere lying in front of the central sulcus. It is concerned…
FUNCTIONAL ASYMMETRY
the term for the perceptual superiority of one eye or one ear for certain stimuli. The right ear may be…
FUNDAMENTAL SYMPTOMS
The 4 primary symptoms of schizophrenia according to Bleuler, abnormal associations, autistic behaving and thinking, abnormal effect and ambivalence. Compare…
GATEKEEPER ROLE
the responsibility of judges to determine the admissibility in court of both scientific and non-scientific expert testimony according to criteria…
GENDER SCHEMA
the term that applies to the organized set of beliefs and expectations that guides a person's understanding of gender or…
GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY
an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that focuses on wholeness, pattern, relationship, order, integration and organisation. Designed to move past reductionistic and…
GENITAL AROUSAL IN SLEEP
the action penile erection in men and clitoral enlargement and vaginal lubrication in women that occur during REM sleep when…
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…
EYE-VOICE SPAN
is similar to reading span, in that the eye-voice span, when reading aloud, is the physical distance (relative to a…