TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE (TDD)
a tool utilized by people with hearing loss or speech handicaps to correspond via telephone lines. It commonly comprises a…
TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY
the surgical removal of a temporal lobe or a part of it. It might be done as part of the…
TENDON SENSATION
the kinesthetic feeling generated by arousal of receptors within a tendon.
TERMAN, LEWIS MADISON
An American psychologist. Terman earned his doctorate in 1905 at Clark University and worked for 4 years at the Los…
TERRITORIALITY
noun. 1. an animal's defending of a particular geographic region from intrusion by other members of the identical species.
TEST OF ATTENTIONAL AND INTERPERSONAL STYLE (TAIS)
a self-report inventory which identifies a person's dominant attentional style and profiles their style of interacting with other people. Greatly…
THALAMIC LESION
a loss of structure or operation of a portion of the thalamus resulting in such impacts as avoidance-learning deficits. Animals…
THEORY OF MIND
the capacity to imagine or form opinions about the cognitive states of other people: What does the other person know?…
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
a setting for individuals requiring therapy for a wide array of psychosocial difficulties and disorders which is based upon an…
THIOXANTHENES
noun. a set of antipsychotic drugs, usually of intermediate potency, which are similar to the phenothiazines in pharmacological activity and…
THOUGHT BROADCASTING
the delusion in which one's thoughts are being disseminated throughout the surroundings for all to be aware of.
THREAT TO SELF-ESTEEM MODEL
a theory postulating that assistance from another is , at times, interpreted as a danger to the self, because it…