PARTICIPANT
noun. an individual who participates in an investigation, analysis, or experiment, for instance by performing jobs mandated by the experimenter…
PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL
the degree to which an individual believes an action is under their active management.
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
a set of disorders involving pervasive trends of perceiving, corresponding to, and thinking about the surroundings and the self which…
DEFECTOLOGY
Russian psychology. The area dealing with learning disabilities and abnormal psychology.
DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Technique used in psychotherapy focusing on underlying motivational or defensive factors determining behaviour an dadjustment. See depth therapy.
EGOCENTRIC SPEECH
Speech not directed at others or where there is no attempt to change thoughts or to take into account another…
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence involving the ability to process emotional information. See quotient.
EMPOWERMENT
1. Promoting skills, knowledge and the confidence needed to take control of your life. 2. Delegation of increased power making…
EVALUATION APPREHENSION
The uneasiness about being judges by others especially being judged by the experimenter.
EXPERIMENTER EXPECTANCY EFFECT
Where the experimenter expects certain results and causes errors in research.
LIFE-HISTORY METHOD
an interview which takes a structured approach to obtaining historical data about events when evaluating an individuals current functioning.
MANIPULATION
The conscious and deliberate misleading of an individual by another individual either directly or indirectly in order to achieve a…
MEDICAL FAMILY THERAPY
attempts to combine the doctrines of psychotherapy and biopsychosocial systems in the context of a family situation to help other…
METHOD OF LOCI
is a technique used to remember words which are converted into mental images and then associated with specific positions or…
MULTIPLE CAUSATION
is the philosophical position which explains that a single cause is unlikely to be the result of a single cause,…
NEGATIVE EMOTION
is usually an unpleasant or unhappy emotion which is evoked in individuals to express a negative affect towards an event…