Pediatrics

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INTERSUBJECTIVITY

1. A philosophical view to all public events are objective and are shared experiences that are subjective. 2. communication that

INVERTED-U HYPOTHESIS

Performance and motivation and the proposed correlation between them, the performance is poorest when motivation or arousal at very high

L DATA

Based on the life record or life history of an individuals and the information about their personality, see o data,

FALSE-ALARM RATE

is the number or proportion of incorrect answers such as "Yes" or "No" given as final responses to tasks within

FAST MAPPING

is the seemingly fast ability for a young people, especially babies to learn entirely new words on the general understanding

FILIAL IMPRINTING

term that is used to describe the learning process where a young animal becomes attached to its parent and copies

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal

FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS

a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration

GAF SCALE

Abbreviation of global assessment of functioning that is a numerical scale from 1 -100 used by mental health practitioners.

GENDER SCRIPT

a temporally organised gender related sequence of events. A female gender script can be laundry, cooking and male gender script

GENITAL EROTICISM

the term that is used to describe the arousal of sexual excitement by stimulation of the genital organs.

GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS

Hypothesis of female mate selection that argues genetic variation in males correlates with success, features of male behaviour provide information

GROWTH SPURT

the term that is sued to describe any period of accelerated physical development, especially the pubescent growth spurt.

INTERVENING VARIABLE

1. Is an entity and hypothetical and is influenced by an independent variable and influences in turn a variable dependent.

INVOLVED GRANDPARENT

A grandparent or type of who has a loving relationship or is warm with his or her grandchildren and takes

LABELING

Patient may be incomplete or misleading, because not all cases conform to the sharply defined characteristics of the standard diagnostic

FALSE-BELIEF TASK

are typically associated with theory-of-mind studies where they are tasks during which children must infer that another understand or possess

FATHER FIGURE SURROGATE FATHER, FATIGABILITY

is the idea of a male figure within a family, for a specific individual who they see as their 'father

FILIAL MATURITY

a term that is applied to the mutual and caring relationship seen between adult children and their older parents and

FORMAL DISCIPLINE

the term that is applied to the concept that some subjects, like mathematics and foreign languages need to be studied