Pediatrics

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FUTURE ORIENTATION

a time perspective that is focused on the future, especially on how to achieve your future goals.

GENDER REASSIGNMENT

1. changing a person's gender label due to being wrong at birth due to anomalous genitalia. 2. Use of surgery…

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION

the term describing the tendency for a physical or mental condition or disorder to be able to be inherited by…

GOAL ORIENTATION

1. Tendency for a person to physically and mentally position themselves toward their goal. 2. Characteristic of a person tending…

GROUP ROLES

The sets of behaviour that is expected of people in certain roles within the group. Need to be defined in…

INTERROLE CONFLICT

The role conflict that occurs when individuals have one role or more when within a group and the behaviours and…

INVARIANT FEATURE

An object that does not change or its characteristic when the object is viewed under different circumstances. Features that are…

KOHLBERG'S THEORY

Broadly speaking the morally developed individual moves from a selfish concern with rewards and punishment through a reliance on fixed…

LATENT LEARNING

Learning that occurs without awareness or conscious effort or intention. Learning may come from social cues, through rewards, or observations.

TEMPERAMENT THEORY

the belief postulating that behavioral propensities are biologically rooted and exist from birth, cultivating the disposition of the individual.

THINNING

with regard to conditioning, a gradual escalation in the intermittency of reinforcement.

TRANSCRIPTION

noun. With regard to genetics, the procedure whereby the inherited data housed in DNA is transferred to a molecule of…

TYPOLOGY

noun. any study of a specific classification of phenomena into categories based upon typical traits of a personality.

VENTILATION

with regard to counseling and psychotherapy, a patient

VOCATIONAL SELECTION

1.vocational choice. 2. an uncommon synonym of personnel selection.

YOUTH COUNSELING

counseling which supplies guidance, data, and advisement to youths, generally in early childhood up to the teenage years. Youth counseling…

TEMPERANCE

noun. any type of auspicious self-constraint, manifested as self-regulation in overseeing and controlling one

THORNDIKE-LORGE LIST

an formative and influential list of word frequencies within the English language, comprised in 1944. There have been a multitude…

TRANSDUCTIVE REASONING

the propensity of a kid in the preoperational phase of mental development to see a link between unrelated instances, utilizing…

UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

1. an outlook of acceptance, caring, and holding dear on the behalf of the therapy professional, that is considered beneficial…