Substance Abuse Disorders

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AFFECTIVE TONE

the state of mind or sense corresponding with a particular encounter or stimulant. In therapy, whenever a patient doesn't work

AMPHETAMINE

noun. A stimulus within the central nervous system, tightly correlated in terms of construction and functioning to ephedrine, which is

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR

aggressive, impulsive, and often violent actions that violate protective rules, conventions, and codes of a society - for example, laws.

ARCHETYPE

1. a perfect or typical example of something or the original model from which other models are supposed to replicate.

ATTITUDE

in social psychology, an enduring and general evaluation or cognitive schema relating to an object, person, group, issue, or concept.

AUTONOMIC REACTIVITY

1. the extent or level to which an organism responds physiologically to a stimulus, such as a stressor in the

BAR GRAPH

n. a method of displaying statistical data through rectangular bars which vary in length and height. These bars are separated

BEHAVIOR SETTING

n. in environmental psychology, refers to the environment as the setting for observing behavior. This setting, for instance, may include

BEHAVIORAL INTEGRATION

n. the process of combining individual behaviors into one whole behavioral unit. Instead of functioning separately, these behaviors become coordinated

BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD

n. the collection and analysis of an account on a person. It may be the whole or a portion of

BOUNDARY ISSUES

n. in therapy and health care, refers to ethical issues which surround the relationship between a therapist and a patient.

CATEGORICAL DATA

n. types of data which can be counted and divided into groups. Thus, they consist of counts in contrast to

CONCURRENT VALIDITY

the degree of communication between two measurements at the same time, primarily the investigation of one exam's validity by comparing

CONNECTIONISM

postulated by Edward I. Thorndike, the idea that learning consists of the obtaining of unbiased correlations between reaction and stimulant.

CONTINGENT REWARD

with regard to behaviorist theory, any societal, representative, or material advantage whose introduction to a person is determined based on

CORRECTIVE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

an idea stemming from psychoanalysis which postulates that patients acquire significant and intensive modification via new interpersonal affective events they

COVERT RESPONSE

any typically unseen reaction, like a visual, feeling, or though- the presence of which is generally deduced or gauged indirectly.

DANGEROUSNESS

noun. The condition wherein people come to be more plausible to cause damage to their self or other people, presenting

ACCESSIBILITY OF AN ATTITUDE

the probability of a specific attitude being evoked from recollection upon confronting the attitude object.

ACTUARIAL RISK ASSESSMENT

a mathematically measured prediction of the potential of a person who will present a danger to other people or have