Substance Abuse Disorders

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DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDER

A psychiatric disorder showing disruptive behaviour sever enough that is creates an impairment in social or occupational functioning.

DUAL DIAGNOSIS

Identifying 2 distict disoreders present at the same time. See comorbidity.

EFFECT SIZE

The size of an effect in a study. See combing effect sizes- statistical significance.

EMOTIONAL FLOODING

Lay term. Overwhelming feelings of emotion.

EMPIRICAL GROUNDING

Practice of anchoring theoretical terms to scientifically measurable events.

EQUILIBRIUM

The state of mental or physical balance or stability. See homeostasis.

EXACT REPLICATION

Repeating an experiment where the goal is to have the conditions as close to the original conditions as possible.

EXPLANATORY STYLE

The way a person describe an event or their personal history.

LIFE EVENTS

events which occur during the life cycle which can either be age related in which case involve events such as…

MAIN EFFECT

is the consistent effect of a single factor over other factors in the same experiment.

MASS PSYCHOLOGY

Is the collective term used to describe the range of psychological and emotional processes which occur throughout a population of…

MENTAL DIPLOPIA

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

MIDLIFE CRISIS

typically occurs between the ages of 45 to 60 and is gender non-specific. There is no one biological reason for…

MOOD-CONGRUENT PSYCHOTIC FEATURES

defines delusions or hallucinations which are consistent with either depressive and manic moods which typically occur during episodes.

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…

NULL HYPOTHESIS

the statement postulating an experiment will find no variations between the control and experimental states, which is, no union between…

OPERANT BEHAVIOR

behavior which generates an impact upon the surroundings and whose probability of happening again is influenced by consequences. Operant behavior…

OUTGROUP HOMOGENEITY BIAS

the perceptual propensity to presume the members of other groups are very much alike to one another, especially in comparison…

PARADOXICAL REACTION

with regard to pharmacology, a drug response which contradicts the predicted effect, for instance, worsening of anxiety following the deliverance…