ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECT
a lasting impact of hormonal action generally happening in fetal growth or the formative postnatal time which leads to lasting…
PASSIVE DECEPTION
the withholding of specific data from research-engaged parties, like not making them aware of the entire details of the study.…
PERCEPTUAL FIELD
with regard to gestalt psychology, the entirety of the surroundings which someone understands at a specific time- that being, all…
PERSONALITY STRUCTURE
the ordering of the personality with regard to its basic elements and their union with one another. Structural theories are…
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
the lowest level of Maslow's motivational hierarchy of needs, consisting of water, sleep, air, food, and other survival-based needs.
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…
DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS
Operant conditioning. A stimulus that increases the probablity of a response.
DOUBLE STANDARD
A hypocritical belief where one behaviour is admissible in one group but not in the other.
ECOBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
Assessment used in applied behaviour analysis to measure moment-to-moment effects on specific behaviours.
EMBRYONIC STAGE
In humans it is about the 6 week period where the 3 layered embryo develops.
EMPIRICISM
Approach to epistemology holding that all knowledge of matters of fact comes from experience or needs experience for validation.
ESCAPE BEHAVIOR
A response that is designed to move away from aversive stimulus by withdrawal or entering a fantasy world. Compare avoidance…
EXEMPLIFICATION
The strategy a person uses to make other people regard them as highly moral and virtuous.
EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)
Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.
ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT
the atmosphere in which one attempts to learn, which can aid in the learning experience or distract from and diminish…
ACTIVITY LOG
a journal managed by a study supervisor or the study's volunteers used on an hourly basis for operations in numerous…
ADOPTION STUDY
a model of investigation that intends to ascertain an estimate of the level of genetic potential of a chosen attribute…
AGREEABLENESS
the propensity to behave in a cooperative, not self-serving way, viewed as one aspect of a dimension of singular diversities