Pediatrics

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EVOLUTION

The process that involves a gradual change in a population's appearnace that has happened over many generations.

EXPERT POWER

The capacity to influence others deriving from the assumption that the influencer has superior skills. See power.

LEISURE LIFESTYLE

A lifestyle (way of living) in which free time, otherwise referred to as leisure time forms a large part of…

LINEAR CAUSATION

a simple explanation of the cause and effect hypothesis in that a simple event will have been caused by a…

MANUAL ARTS THERAPY

is the use of manual arts such as woodworking and metalworking as rehabilitative activities.

MATHEMATICAL ABILITY

is the ability, whether learnt or perceived as natural capability to process numerical data and conclude a mathematical calculation based…

MEMORY DISTORTION

is the inaccurate and usually wrong recall of incorrect facts in relation with a specific stimulus.

METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM

is the acceptance of a value once multiple methodologies have been used.

MONOZYGOTIC TWINS (MZ TWINS)

opposed to di-zygotic twins are always of the same sex because they develop from the same ovum, which simply splits…

MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

is the collective term used to describe the change and development of an organisms motor functions over their entire life…

NAIVE OBSERVER I

is an observer, who will have little or no knowledge about the scenario or event they are asked to observe,…

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT

is the removal, prevention or negative reinforcement of a stimulus of a response which will increase the likelihood of that…

NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED (NOS)

in the DSM-IV-TR, designating a widely-based diagnostic classificaton, for instance, depressive disorder not otherwise ascertained. The NOS diagnosis is selected…

OBTRUSIVE MEASURE

a way of gathering measurements or observations wherein those partaking know that a measurement is underway.

ORGAN INFERIORITY

the insight of being deficient or somehow lesser than other people as a outcome of aversive emotions about a physical…

OVERDETERMINATION

with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the idea postulating that many unconscious facets might mix to generate one symptom, dream, dysfunction,…

PARENTAL REJECTION

continual denial of acceptance, affection, or care by one or both parents, at times, hidden beneath a cover of over-indulgence…

PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL

the degree to which an individual believes an action is under their active management.

PERSONAL FABLE

a belief in one's differences and invulnerability, that is an indicator of adolescent egocentrism and might continue further into one's…

PHONEME

noun. with regard to language, a speech noise which plays an important part in a linguistics and can't be examined…