PHALLIC PERSONALITY
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, a trend of narcissistic behavior exemplified by vanity, excessive self-assurance, boastfulness, compulsive carnal behavior, and…
DIATHESIS-STRESS MODEL
Theory stating that mental and physical disorders develop from genetic or biological predisposition combined with stress.
DISENGAGED FAMILY
A family with memberswithdrawn from each other both emotionally and psychologically.
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP
The relationship between the drug and its efficacy to target the organ or symptom.
ECOBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
Assessment used in applied behaviour analysis to measure moment-to-moment effects on specific behaviours.
EMOTIONAL CONFLICT
The state of disharmony between incompatible intense emotions such as love and desire.
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…
OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING
the choosing of participants or other sampling factors for an experiment or questionnaire essentially because they're readily available.