TOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY
the level to which one is capable of accepting, and to act without weariness or disorientation in scenarios having conflicting…
TRIANGULATION
noun. 1. the procedure involved in confirming a hypothesis by gathering proofs from many sources or experiments or utilizing many…
WORD SALAD
an extreme type of thought disorder, shown in seriously disordered and virtually unintelligible talking or penmanship, marked by serious loosening…
THEORY X AND Y
two different forms of managerial philosophy: Theory X employers presume that employees are passive, lazy, and driven only by financial…
TOTAL INSTITUTION
1. a highly ordered and restrictive social institution which keeps up a high level of management over the activities of…
TRIPARTITE THEORY OF ATTITUDES
a theory of attitude structure postulating which an outlook is based upon or contains affective, mental, and behavioral elements.
VARIED MAPPING
during a search task, a condition wherein target and distractor stimulus alter roles at random during the course of an…
THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
a well-aligned working union between patient and therpay professional, though by a great many to be a vital facet of…
TRUE EXPERIMENT
an analysis wherein involved parties are designated at random to at least two experimentally manipulated remediation conditions.
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION
any remark or observation by the therapy professional which escalates the patient's consciousness or self-comprehension.
TRAIT THEORY
approaches which explain character traits with regard to individual facets of one's personality, that being, interior traits which are thought…
TRUE SCORE
with regard to classical test theory, the portion of a gauge or score which depicts the actual quantity of the…
VERBAL CONDITIONING
the conditioning of a verbal reaction via reinforcement, generally rendered in the form of reward or positive attention. The experiment…
TECHNICAL ECLECTICISM
with regard to integrative psychotherapy, the utilization of methods from many different theoretical contexts to manage the involved problems a…
TRAIT-NEGATIVITY BIAS
the propensity for negative character traits to play a greater role than positive character traits in determining overall impressions and…
TYPICALITY EFFECT
the discovery that individuals are faster to make category judgments regarding common members of a category than they are to…