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1. IB Psychology SL It contains four main parts. The first part is concerned with the perspectives, the second part with the options, the third part with research methodology and finally all students have to More… 2.5 KB
2. Ian Brockington Ian Brockington was the son of Sir Colin Fraser Brockington, one of the top names in British medicine. Ian trained as a cardiologist and went to Nigeria where he completed a monumental work More… 1.1 KB
3. Iatrogenic illness A disorder precipitated, aggravated, or induced by the physician's attitude, examination, comments, or treatment
4. Iatrogenic neurosis a functional disorder brought on by the physician's diagnosis or suggestions.
5. Ibn Arabi Ibn 'Arabī (Arabic: ابن عربي‎) (July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn More… 1.7 KB
6. Icarus complex Murray's term for urethal complex. The name is suggested after Icarus, the mythological figure who flew too near the sun against his father's advice and as a result of which his More… 0.5 KB
7. Ice block theory a concept of sensivity training that the existing attitudes and behvior are unfrozen, and new attitudes and behavior are first explored and then frozen into new habit pattern.
8. Ice play Ice play is a form of temperature play that usually involves running pieces of ice across a person's naked skin. In popular culture the portrayal of ice on a female or male nipple can More… 0.4 KB
9. Iceberg analogy Used to illustrate Freud's structure of the human mind. The mind is likened to an iceberg, only the tip of an iceberg, or the mind, is visible. This is our conscious, or awareness. Just More… 1.0 KB
10. Icon A visual memory trace, or the persisting after-effects of stimuli, that has a large storage capacity but a duration of not more than one second. also called iconic trace, iconic image or More… 0.2 KB
11. Iconic mode Representation of reality through mental images based on sensory impressions. The iconic mode begins to develop during infancy and is dominant in the preschool years. The other two modes in More… 0.3 KB
12. Iconicity 1- The resemblance betweentwo objects or images despite structural differences such as the superficial similarity between birds and bats. 2- In psychological esthetics, the tendency for More… 0.3 KB
13. Ictal emotions emotions that occur suddenly and disappear quickly.
14. Ictus 1- a stroke. 2- an epileptic seizure of sudden onset that is unacacterizing a functional disorder, such as blindness, deafness, the paralyses and anesthesias typical of conversion hysteria. More… 0.3 KB
15. Id resistance A type of resistance that takes the form of a repetition compulsion; the same material continues to recur regardless of number and variety of analytic interpretation. Id resistance may More… 0.2 KB
16. Id sadism The primitive, instinctual, destructive impulses of the early infancy that are associated with omnipotent gratification and security and usually provoked by frustration.
17. Id wish The instinctual desires that arise from the repressed unconscious, primitive reaches of the mind. The urges are generally aggressive or erotic.
18. Idea Is a form formed by consciousness through the process of ideation. Human capability to contemplate ideas is associated with the ability of reasoning, self-reflection, and of the ability to More… 0.6 KB
19. Idealization Is the process by which scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are certainly false. Often these assumptions are used to make models easier to understand or More… 4.6 KB
20. Idealized image an ideational contrust of the self that supplies unity and striving in the world of people and things. The idealized image is a false and exaggerated estimate of one's true More… 0.3 KB
21. Ideas bank A website where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas. Some ideas banks are used for the purpose of developing new inventions or technologies. Many corporations have installed More… 2.1 KB
22. Ideas of reference Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous things in the world are referring to them directly or have More… 1.0 KB
23. Ideational learning learning in which there is a high degree of understanding or the comprehension of concepts, as opposed to learning that is rote or involves relatively meaningless material such as nonsense More… 0.2 KB
24. Idebenone is an organic compound of the quinone family and promoted commercially as a synthetic analog of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). Idebenone is claimed to have properties similar to CoQ10 in its More… 1.1 KB
25. Identical components theory A theory of transfer of training explained by Edward Lee Thorndike. The theory maintains that in relation to the components of a task learned before will facilitate easy learning of a new More… 0.5 KB

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