| 1. | J curve | a curve describing the frequency of compliance with a rule or standard. A commonly cited example is the manner in which automobile drivers comply with a stop sign. Some stop completely, some More… 0.4 KB |
| 2. | Jack Barchas | Jack Barchas, M.D. is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief More… 1.2 KB |
| 3. | Jackson law principle | Jackson law principle : A point of view that when there is a loss of a mental function due to disease or natural deterioration, the higher and the more recently developed functions are lost More… 0.2 KB |
| 4. | Jacksonian democracy | Jacksonian Democracy refers to the political philosophy of United States President Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Jackson's policies followed in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson. More… 1.8 KB |
| 5. | Jacksonian epilepsy | Jacksonian epilepsy : A type of epilepsy characterized by convulsions on the side of the body contralateral to the cortical locus of the disturbance. Typically the convulsions spread from More… 0.4 KB |
| 6. | Jacksons law | Jackson's law: the principle that when intellectual functions are lost through diesase, those that appear latest in evolution are lost first. |
| 7. | Jacob Levy Moreno | Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno (May 18, 1889 Bucharest, Romania — May 14, 1974 New York, USA, ) is The founder of psychodrama, sociometry and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy. He was also More… 4.7 KB |
| 8. | Jacob membrance | Jacob membrance : A stratum of the retina along the posterior wall of the eye, consisting of the rods and cones, the outer parts of the neuroepithelial cells constituting the end-organs (or More… 0.3 KB |
| 9. | Jacobson organ | Jacobson organ : In snakes and many mammals, an olfactory receptor located in the top part of the mouth, in snakes, a basic chemoreceptor; in mammals, a pheromone detector. Also kn own as More… 0.2 KB |
| 10. | Jacobson relaxation method | Jacobson relaxation method : Based on the maxim "Contract and then Relax" a treatment procedure for people in stressful situations and who cannot sleep or are on the verge of More… 0.4 KB |
| 11. | Jacques Hassoun | Jacques Hassoun (1936-1999); French psychologist and proponent of the ideas of Jacques Lacan. Hassoun developed a theory of depression and, in his later years, wrote a history of Egyptian More… 1.9 KB |
| 12. | Jacques Lacan | (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in More… 1.1 KB |
| 13. | Jactitation or jactation | extreme restlessness or tossing about. |
| 14. | James Dewey Watson | James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were More… 1.4 KB |
| 15. | James George Frazer | Sir James George Frazer (Jan 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland – May 7, 1941, Cambridge), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and More… 0.5 KB |
| 16. | James Jerome Gibson | James Jerome Gibson (Jan 27, 1904–Dec 11, 1979) : American psychologist who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Psychology, considered one of the most important More… 1.5 KB |
| 17. | James William | (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist, James graduated from Harvard Medical School but never practices medicine. However, as a Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Harvard More… 0.5 KB |
| 18. | James lang theory of the emotions | a formulation that attempts to integrate the conscious and behavioral aspects of the emotions. Lange, a danish physiologist, had argued that emotional processes are identical with changes in More… 0.7 KB |
| 19. | James-Lange theory of emotions | A fusion of two similar theories of the EMOTIONS put forward by theAmerican philosopher WilliamJames and the Danish physiologist CG.Lange. In essence they suggest that what we refer to as More… 0.4 KB |
| 20. | Jan van der Lans | Johannes (Jan) Maria van der Lans (July 10, 1933-2002) was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now called Radboud University More… 1.5 KB |
| 21. | Janet Pierre | (1859-1947) French psychiatrist who first provided solid empirical evidence for the existence of unconscious (subconscious) mental processes. He advanced the concept of mental dissociation More… 0.5 KB |
| 22. | Japanese bondage | Kinbaku is the word for "erotic bondage" or Kinbaku-bi which means "beautiful bondage". Kinbaku (also Sokubaku) is a Japanese style of sexual bondage or BDSM which More… 1.9 KB |
| 23. | Jealousy | An attitude of envy toward another because of affection that individual shows to a third person. |
| 24. | Jealousy Delusional | Delusional jealousy, Morbid jealousy, or Othello syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that their spouse or sexual partner is being unfaithful. The More… 1.6 KB |
| 25. | Jean Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, More… 2.5 KB |