EGO WEAKNESS
Psychoanalytical theory. The ability of the ego to control impulses and to tolerate frustration, disappointment and stress. Compare ego strength.
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
The reassurance, encouragement and understanding we give or receive to a person.
EVALUATION RESEARCH
Applying scientific principles, methods and theories to identify, describe, measure and predict importnat factors to develop human service delivery systems.…
EXPERIMENTER EXPECTANCY EFFECT
Where the experimenter expects certain results and causes errors in research.
LEGITIMATE POWER
The ability to influence fellow members of a group which is usually dependent on your status within the group and…
LIMITED GUARDIANSHIP
a level of control over a person who is deemed incompetent in certain areas of society such as control over…
MEDITATION
is considered an exercise during which the individual enters an extended state of contemplation and reflection over a specific subject…
METHODOLOGICAL OBJECTIVISM VERSUS METHOD
first proposed by U.S. psychologist Robert I. Watson (1909 - 1980) is a prescriptive dimension which can be used to…
MOLESTATION
is the act of making unwanted and unsolicited sexual gestures or approaches to another individual. When the victim is a…
NAIVE HEDONISM
is the second stage, in the preconvention level of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development where children begin to make their…
NEGATIVE PUNISHMENT
Is punishment which arises because a stimulus, circumstance or situation is removed as a consequence of a response from that…
OBSERVER DRIFT
gradual step-by-step alterations over time in the observations and documenting of observations made by a specific viewer.
ORESTES COMPLEX
with regard to classical Freudian psychoanalysis, a son's repressed urge to murder his mother, that might result in the physical…
OUTGROUP HOMOGENEITY BIAS
the perceptual propensity to presume the members of other groups are very much alike to one another, especially in comparison…
PARENTAL INVESTMENT THEORY
the postulation that several carnal variants in sexually reproducing species can be comprehended with regard to the quantity of time,…