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
FAMILY THERAPY
involves the whole family becoming involved in the counselling process, instead of focussed efforts looking at a single individual, indeed,…
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
GAME THEORY
model or paradigm used to understand the dynamics associated with personal conflict. Often used in theoretical modelling and empirical studies.
INTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS
the term that is applied to the stimulus arising from inside an organism. Examples of this stimulus includes headache, stomach…
INTRAPSYCHIC CONFLICT
Opposing forces and the clash of them within the psyche, it is a psychoanalytic theory such as wishes, agencies or…
JOHN HENRY EFFECT
an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FECHNER'S LAW
a law that relates subjective experience to changes in stimulus intensity. This psychophysical formula proposes that the sensation experienced is…
FORMATIVE EVALUATION
the name of the process that is concerned with helping to improve or guide the development of a program through…
FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON
a person with a healthy personality, who experiences freedom of choice and action, is creative, exhibits the qualities of existential…