Personality Disorders

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EMOTIONAL CONFLICT

The state of disharmony between incompatible intense emotions such as love and desire.

EMOTIONAL STRESS

The feeling of psychological strain.

EPILEPTOID PERSONALITY

Personality pattern including irritability, selfishness, aggressiveness and being uncooperative.

EXEMPLIFICATION

The strategy a person uses to make other people regard them as highly moral and virtuous.

EXTERNAL VALIDITY

The extent that research can be generalized beyond the results to other situations or people.

LOOKING-GLASS SELF

is a theory which attempts to explain the mechanism and reasoning behind humans consistent attempts to evaluate their own performance

MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY (MBI)

a theoretical method for determining the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and the level of reduced personal accomplishment. There are 22 statements

MENTAL DIPLOPIA

is the experience of illusions, hallucinations and false memories in contention with experiences that trigger them.

MIND-BODY PROBLEM

is the inability to accounting for a relationship between the mental and physical processes in the body. Solutions to the

MOOD-DEPENDENT MEMORY

is a theory which suggests the rate at which a memory can be retrieved is dependent on the mood the

NAIVE PERSONALITY THEORIES

are ideas about a person or object which are normally held implicitly rather than explicitly. They are a collection of

NEGATIVISM

is a characteristic associated with a variety disorders. Negativism otherwise is the persistent resistant to suggestions of others, even when

OBJECTIVE

1. having authentic presence in reality, based upon viewable phenomena. 2. adjective. unbiased or not influenced by private emotions, perceptions,

OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING

the choosing of participants or other sampling factors for an experiment or questionnaire essentially because they're readily available.

OVERSHADOWING

noun. with regard to Pavlovian conditioning, a lessening in conditioning with one conditioned stimulant because of the existence of another

PASTORAL COUNSELING

a type of counseling or psychotherapy wherein knowledge and standards stemming from the disciplines of theology and the behavioral sciences

PERSEVERATIVE ERROR

the ongoing repetition of an error.

PHARMACOTHERAPY

noun. the remediation of a disorder by the delivery of drugs, in contrast to such methods as psychotherapy, surgery, or

DEPRESSION

1. A dysphoria that can cary from mild to severe mood changes. 2. Psychiatry. A dpressive disorder.

DIDACTIC GROUP THERAPY

Used in group therapy where a person is more likely to respond under the active guidance of a leader.