| 51. | Abiogenetic | Pertaining to spontaneous genesis, the emergence of living forms from nonliving material, the process of the creation of live. |
| 52. | Abklingen | (to fade away---Germany) A fading out of a tone or other sensation, involving either an intensive or a qualitative change or both. |
| 53. | Ablation | Removal of portion of a body part or the destruction of its function, as by a surgical procedure. |
| 54. | Ableism | is a neologism of American coinage, since about 1981. It is used to describe discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are not disabled. An ableist society is More… 0.5 KB |
| 55. | Ablution | 1- Water treatment formerly widely used to quiet restless or violent patients by wrapping them in wet sheets, immersing them in a tub of warm water.2- Ritual washing, symbolic of spiritual More… 0.3 KB |
| 56. | Ablutomania | Morbid preoccupation with cleaniness, exhibited by frequent washing or bathing, as seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). |
| 57. | Abneys effect | An illumination illusion when a large area is lit up, The appearance is that the center lights up first and then the light spreads to other areas. When the area is darkened, the edges appear More… 0.3 KB |
| 58. | Abneys law | A principle that the luminance (strength) of a given monochromatic light is proportional to the luminosity (brightness) of the light and the radiance (radiant energy). See also: Abneys More… 0.3 KB |
| 59. | Abnormal | Lit., any departure from the norm or the normal. The term is used variously to denote such things as purely quantitative deviations in statistical analyses and deviant behaviour patterns of More… 1.3 KB |
| 60. | Abnormal behavior | Patterns of emotion, thought, and action deemed pathological for one or more of the following reasons: infrequent occurrence, violation of norms, personal distress, disability or More… 0.2 KB |
| 61. | Abnormal fixation | A persistent thought or behavior that is apparently meaningless to others. |
| 62. | Abnormal mental processes | Cognitive processes which diverge strikinly from those considerable normal. |
| 63. | Abnormal psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behaviour.Because of the difficulties with the term Abnormal, many favour dropping this term from the psychologist's lexicon. Other More… 0.4 KB |
| 64. | Abnormality | In psychological terms, any mental, emotional, or behavioral activity that deviates from culturally or scientifically accepted norms. |
| 65. | Aboiement | (barking — french) A speech disturbance in which animal sounds such as barking are involuntarily emitted; seen in chronic advanced schizophrenia and de la Tourette's syndrome. |
| 66. | Abolitionism | Abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist More… 3.0 KB |
| 67. | Aboral | Opposite to or away from the mouth. |
| 68. | Aboriginal therapy | Psychotherapy practiced in aboriginal societies, including folk healing, sorcery, and the use of a shaman or witch doctor. |
| 69. | Abortion | 1- Generally, the cessation or arrest of any condition. 2- More specifically and commonly, the termination of pregnancy before the foetus becomes viable. The issue of viability is handled More… 0.7 KB |
| 70. | Abortion, spontaneous | Any expelling of a premature foetus prior to the point of viability without any specific attempt on anyone's part to produce termination of the pregnancy. |
| 71. | Aboutism | A term coined by Gestalt therapist, Frederic Perls to refer to the tendency to make bland intellectualization about one's existence; academic second-hand study as opposed to direct More… 0.2 KB |
| 72. | Above and below | A tendecy to establish a relative, comparative social ranking, consciously or unconsciously, in which those with inferiority feelings place themselves lower in the hierarcgy than they merit. More… 0.2 KB |
| 73. | Above-down analysis | An analysis that proceeds from the whole to the parts, in contrast with an elementistic and summative synthesis from "below-up". |
| 74. | Abraham Kaplan | (June 11, 1918 - June 19, 1993) American philosopher. Kaplan's parents were Joseph J. and Chava (Lerner) Kaplan. Abraham's father was a Rabbi. He was raised in Odessa, More… 1.6 KB |
| 75. | Abraham Maslow | (born April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is noted for his conceptualization of a "hierarchy of human needs", and is considered the father of humanistic More… 4.2 KB |
