LABELING THEORY
Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called…
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FATHER-DAUGHTER INCEST
is an umbrella term which is used to describe any of the sexual relationships or relations between a father and…
FINE MOTOR
This term is used to describe the skills and activities that need coordination of our small muscles to make precise…
FRACTIONATION
the name that is given to the psychophysical procedure used to scale the magnitudes of a sensation. A person might…
GARDEN-PATH SENTENCE
Sentence where structural cues, lexical ambiguity or a combination of both mislead the reader or listener to an incorrect interpretation…
GENDER-ROLE SOCIALIZATION
the conditioning of people to the roles, expectations and the behaviours that society prescribes for males and females.
GENITAL STAGE
Psychoanalytic theory. Final stage of psychosexual development, reached in puberty. Oedipus complex resolved, erotic interest and activity focused on sexual…
ITINERANT TEACHER
a commiting teacher, who travels to a couple of schools or classrooms as to provide specialized instruction for children.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
The term is preferred by those who emphasize the active role of the child as a learner with considerable innate…
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
is the binary opposite to intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation explains the drive for an individual to participate within a specific…
FAMILY CONSTELLATION
has also been associated with Alfred Adler; the family constellation refers to the collection of relationships within a particular family…
FECHNER'S LAW
a law that relates subjective experience to changes in stimulus intensity. This psychophysical formula proposes that the sensation experienced is…
FINITE-STATE GRAMMAR
Noam Chomsky in 1957, proposed that grammar generated a sentence one unit at a time in a sequence from left…