Personality Disorders

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EGO RESILIENCY

A personality with the ability to vary and adapt and express emotional impulses depending on social demands.

EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY

The tendency to have rapid emotional change. See affective liability.

EMPIRICAL TEST

Testing a hypothesis with experiments.

ETHNOPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Where issues related to ethnic and cultural variations in using and response to psychoative agents is considered.

EXPERIMENTER BIAS

An error occuring from the expectations of the experimenter.

LIFE SPACE

a representation of the factors affecting an individuals life. These factors include environmental, biological, social and psychological factors which can

MANIFEST GOAL

is the openly stated goal or aim of a specific piece of research. This goal will be evaluated at the

MEDIATING BEHAVIOR

behaviours that can increase the rate or more likely increase the probability of reinforcement of the target behaviour.

MESSIAH COMPLEX

is a complex in which sufferers have a desire to redeem and save others, some sufferers have harboured the delusion

MIXED-STANDARD SCALE

is a test of behaviour evaluation. Participants are presented with a selection of behaviours and asked to evaluate them based

MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM

is a group of professionals who work together to complement each others skills to complete a common goal.

NEGATIVE AFFECT

is an internal feeling or emotion which is typically experienced after one has failed to complete a task or goal,

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

an abstract continuous probability distribution which is na act of two parameters: the expected value, p, and the variance, o.

OBSESSION

a continual thought, concept, picture, or urge which is experienced as invasive and not proper, and results in significant fear,

OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES

mental, emotional, and behavioral results which people consider to be correlated with future, or intended, actions and which are considered

PARANOID IDEATION

cognitive processes consisting of continual suspicion and non-delusional beliefs of being persecuted, tormented, or treated in an unfair manner by

PEER REVIEW

the assessment of scientific or academic piece, like research or written pieces turned into journals for publishing, by other skilled

PERSONALITY DISINTEGRATION

a swift breakdown in character, cohesion, and operating, generally due to specifically distressing life scenarios.

DECOMPENSATION

The breakdown of our defense mechanisms that result in a worsening of psychiatric symptoms.

DEVELOPMENT

The progressive series of change in something.