ENCEPHALIZATION
Transfer of cognitive functions from more primitive brain areas to cerebral centres during evolution. See evolution of the brain.
ESTABLISHING OPERATION
Any event or procedure that changes the efficacy of a stimulus as a punisher or reinforcer.
EXPECTANCY
1. Behavioural psychology. The state where an organism anticipates an event based on previous experience. 2. Cognitive psychology. Mental set…
EXTENSOR THRUST
Leg reflex caused by stimulation to the sole of the foot. See also stretch reflex.
LIFE SATISFACTION
the degree which adults (typically) find the lives they lead rich, meaningful, full or of a generally high quality. Improving…
MAGICAL THINKING
is the idea that events and happenings can be directly influenced by another persons thoughts, wishes or rituals.
MEASUREMENT ERROR
is any difference between the observed value and the real or true value which leads to the skewing of results…
MENTAL HEALTH
is defined by the World Health Organisation as: A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely…
MISARTICULATION
is the process of faulty articulating which results in unclear and poorly understood speech.
MORALITY OF COOPERATION
was first proposed by Jean Piaget, and explains the morality understandings of children between the ages of 10 and 11,…
MULTIDETERMINED BEHAVIOR
describes behaviours of any individual which are considered to be influenced by more than one variable such genetics and environmental…
NEUROBIOTAXIS
typically happens during embryological development for example. Neurobiotaxis is the formation and development of nerve fibres towards the tissue it…
OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING
the choosing of participants or other sampling factors for an experiment or questionnaire essentially because they're readily available.
ORIENTATION
1. knowledge of the self and of exterior reality, that being, the capacity to recognize one's self and to be…
PAPER-AND-PENCIL TEST
an examination wherein the problems or queries are penned, printed, or drawn and the answers are penned too.
PATHOLOGICAL LYING
a continual, compulsive propensity to tell lies out of proportion to any obvious benefit which can be reached.
PERFORMANCE
noun. 1. any activity or gathering of reactions which leads to an outcome or has an impact on the surroundings.…