PERSISTENCE
1. perseverance or recurrence of a specific action, procedure , or activity in spite of the ceasing of the originating…
PHARMACOLOGICAL ANTAGONISM
a type of antagonism between two drugs wherein one serves as an agonist at a particular receptor site and the…
DECEPTION RESEARCH
Used in research where the participants are not told everything about the research. See active deception- double deception- passive deception.
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…
DIATHESIS-STRESS MODEL
Theory stating that mental and physical disorders develop from genetic or biological predisposition combined with stress.
DISCRIMINATED OPERANT
An operant under stimulus control where response is more likely to occur with a discriminative stimulus is present tahn when…
DRUG CULTURE
The lifestyle of people who take and abuse drugs that create an altered form of consciousness.
ECOBEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
Assessment used in applied behaviour analysis to measure moment-to-moment effects on specific behaviours.
EPINEPHRINE
A catecholamine neurotransmitter and adrenal hormone that is the end product of metabolising tyrosine. Also called adrenaline.
EVALUATION APPREHENSION
The uneasiness about being judges by others especially being judged by the experimenter.
EXPERIMENTER EFFECT
One of 2 errors. (a) errors from the experimenter, (b) the bias from effects of the participants. See experimenter bias-…
LEGITIMATE POWER
The ability to influence fellow members of a group which is usually dependent on your status within the group and…
LUCID INTERVAL
is a term used to describe a period of normality or clear thought after a period of disorganization and delirium.
MARGINALIZATION
the process through which the marginal groups and their members are identified as not being apart of the main group.
MEMORY STORAGE
is an umbrella term used to describe the passive storage of any memory within a human or other organism. There…
METHODOLOGY
is an umbrella term used to describe any system of methods, collection of principles and rules of a procedure which…