ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
FAMILY COUNSELING
is one of the various types of counselling whereby parents, or even other family members, work with trained individual's such…
FOOD FADDISM
the dietary practice based on exaggerated and often incorrect beliefs about the effects of food or nutrition on health, particularly…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
GAMBLER'S FALLACY
failure to recognise a chance event and gives the belief that an outcome can be predicted that is based on…
GRANDIOSITY
the term for an exaggerated sense of your own greatness, ability and importance. It can be a delusion of grandeur…
INTERNAL FRUSTRATION
Psychoanalytic theory. the term applied to the denial of gratification of instinctual impulses due to internal factors such as the…
INTRAGROUP CONFLICT
Confrontation or disagreement between two or more members of a single group. Compare intfrgroup conflict
JEHOVAH COMPLEX
Delusions of grandeur, which make the individual indentify with the qualities associated with God
THEORY X AND Y
two different forms of managerial philosophy: Theory X employers presume that employees are passive, lazy, and driven only by financial…
TRIPARTITE THEORY OF ATTITUDES
a theory of attitude structure postulating which an outlook is based upon or contains affective, mental, and behavioral elements.
THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
a well-aligned working union between patient and therpay professional, though by a great many to be a vital facet of…
TRAIT THEORY
approaches which explain character traits with regard to individual facets of one's personality, that being, interior traits which are thought…
TRUE EXPERIMENT
an analysis wherein involved parties are designated at random to at least two experimentally manipulated remediation conditions.
VARIED MAPPING
during a search task, a condition wherein target and distractor stimulus alter roles at random during the course of an…
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION
any remark or observation by the therapy professional which escalates the patient's consciousness or self-comprehension.
TRAIT-NEGATIVITY BIAS
the propensity for negative character traits to play a greater role than positive character traits in determining overall impressions and…