MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (MBHO)
a body of professionals which specialize in the organisation, management, administration and provision of health care benefits of health organizations.
MATCHING LAW
states that proportion of responses to an allocated to an alternative will match the proportion of reinforcement obtains from that…
MEDIATIONAL DEFICIENCY
the lack of a process or strategy in children which leads to decreased task performance.
METACONTRAST
is a form of masking an object which the perception of one object (the target) is altered by the application…
MODERATOR VARIABLE
with respect to statistics, a moderator variable is entirely unrelated to the criterion variable but it is still related to…
MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIP
In the context of psychology, a multiple relationship may arise between a psychologist and a non-professional, potentially: concurrently is in…
NEGATIVE AFFECT
is an internal feeling or emotion which is typically experienced after one has failed to complete a task or goal,…
NONNORMATIVE INFLUENCES
affects on lifespan growth which are abnormal, in which they happen to just one or a few people and do…
OBJECTIVE SCORING
scoring an examination by way of a formula or key, so that varied scorers will come to the exact same…
ORAL-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, a kind of character stemming from obsessive focus at the oral-biting stage of the oral…
OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES
mental, emotional, and behavioral results which people consider to be correlated with future, or intended, actions and which are considered…
PEER GROUP
a set of people who share at least one trait, like age, profession, education, cultural status, or economic status.
PERSEVERATION
1. overall, perseverance in doing something to an awesome level or past an adequate point. 2. with regard to neuropsychology,…
PHALLIC STAGE
with regard to the traditional psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, the phase of psychosexual growth happening at around age 3,…
DEFERRED IMITATION
Imitating an act some time after it happened. Proposed by Jean Piaget and first seen at around 18 months old.
DEVELOPMENTAL READINESS
A person's state of preparedness to do a given task or a grade level.