Substance Abuse Disorders

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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

PEAK SHIFT

1. a phenomenon, observed in stimulus generalization, which takes place after discrimination training comprising two stimulants across a typical dimension.

PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

writings, documentations, and alike material generated by an individual who, whenever assessed in personal-document analysis, might render knowledge upon that

PHOBIA

noun. a continual and non-sensical fear of a particular scenario, item, or act, that is consequently either strenuously abstained from