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…
OVERCORRECTION
noun. With regard to therapy, a method utilized whenever a client shows improper behavior, wherein the therapy professional asks the…
PARADOXICAL TECHNIQUE
a therapeutic method wherein a patient is guided by the therapy professional to keep engaging in unfavored symptomatic behavior, and…
PERSONAL ORIENTATION INVENTORY (POI)
an inventory aimed to measure self-actualization. It contains 150 objects which each consist of two statements depicting values or actions.…
PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE
the condition of someone who has repeatedly ingested a drug and will encounter undesirable physiological symptoms if they discontinue use…
DEFECTOLOGY
Russian psychology. The area dealing with learning disabilities and abnormal psychology.
DETERIORATION EFFECT
After partcipating in psychotherapy this is the adverse or negative outcome from it.
DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT OF LOW RATE (DRI)
Reinforcement when response to stimuli is low. Also called differential reinforcement of long response times.
DISENGAGED FAMILY
A family with memberswithdrawn from each other both emotionally and psychologically.
DUAL PROCESS MODELS OF PERSUASION
A persuasion theory saying that change in attitude can result from strategies for processing attitude relevant information involving a high…
EMOTIONAL HANDICAP
Learning or behavioural disorder with fears and anxieties preventing a child from functioning socially or academically.
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE
1. Philosophy. Knowledge gained from experience. 2. Sciences. Knowledge gained from experiment and observation. See empiricism.
EXCITATION-TRANSFER THEORY
Aggressive rsponses are intensified by arousal from other stimuli not directly related to the original stimulus that started the aggression.