| 1. | Nadle | A gender in the American Indian Navaho culture, neither male nor female. The satut of nadle can result from ambiguous genitals at birth, or from the person's decision to take that role. More… 0.4 KB |
| 2. | Nail biting | a nervous habit, usually observed in children, in which the fingernails are chewed down to the quick. |
| 3. | Naive | 1- lacking sophistication; childlike; inexperienced. 2- characteristic of subjects in experiments who are unaware of the nature of the experiemnt. |
| 4. | Naive subject | naive subject In PSYCHOLOGY generally, a subject who is unfamiliar with an EXPERIMENT; in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, a subject who has been misled as to the real purpose of the experiment. More… 0.5 KB |
| 5. | Naloxone | Drug that blocks the positive effects of heroin and can lead to a decreased desire to use it. |
| 6. | Naltrexone | Drug that blocks the positive effects of alcohol and heroin and can lead to a decreased desire to drink or use substances. |
| 7. | Nancy Julia Chodorow | is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst born 20 January 1944 in New York City. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1966 and later received her PhD in sociology from Brandeis More… 2.4 KB |
| 8. | Nancy school | a school of hypnotism founded by Bernheim in 1882. The Nancy school held that hypnosis was a normal phenomenon induced by suggestion, in contrast to older schools, which considered the More… 0.2 KB |
| 9. | Napoleon complex | Is a colloquial term describing an alleged type of Inferiority complex which is said to affect some people who are physically short. The term is also used more generally to describe people More… 0.5 KB |
| 10. | Narcissic neurosis | (psychoan.) a neurosis in which the libido regresses to a very early (pregenital) phase of development. Thus, the individual fails to develop an attachment for another person or object. More… 0.3 KB |
| 11. | Narcissism | The term narcissism means love of oneself, and refers to the set of character traits concerned with self-admiration, self-centeredness and self-regard. The name was chosen by Sigmund Freud, More… 0.6 KB |
| 12. | Narcissistic object choice | the investment of the libido in the ego or in an individual similar to one's self. |
| 13. | Narcissistic personality | Extremely selfish and self-centered, people with a narcissistic personality have a grandiose view of their uniqueness, achievements, and talents and an insatiable craving for admiration and More… 0.4 KB |
| 14. | Narcoanalysis | A relatively brief form of psychotherapy in which a narcotic drug is injected repeatedly in order to establish rapport and create conditions for exploration and ventilation of feelings, More… 0.3 KB |
| 15. | Narcosynthesis | It refers to a group of techniques which has its origins in the practice of "narco-hypnosis". Narco-hypnosis, as its name implies, is the use of various narcotics to induce various More… 0.9 KB |
| 16. | Narcotic | it is believed to have been coined by the Greek physician Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden, causing loss of feeling or paralysis. It is based on the Greek word ναρκωσις More… 1.9 KB |
| 17. | Narrative Therapy | it was initially developed during the 1970s and 1980s, largely by Australian Michael White (Dulwich Centre) and his friend and colleague, David Epston, of New Zealand. Their approach became More… 0.5 KB |
| 18. | Narrative therapy | Narrative Therapy was initially developed during the 1970s and 1980s, largely by Australian Michael White (Dulwich Centre) and his friend and colleague, David Epston, of New Zealand. Their More… 2.1 KB |
| 19. | Narratophilia | Narratophilia is a sexual fetish, whereby the telling of dirty and obscene words to sexual partner is sexually arousing. See also: Nose fetishism |
| 20. | Nathaniel Branden | Nathan Blumenthal (born 9 April 1930 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada), is a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of More… 4.5 KB |
| 21. | National Socialism | National Socialism is a political term that is both vague and ambiguous. As the name suggests, features of nationalism and socialism are combined and interrelated to form an overall National More… 2.5 KB |
| 22. | Nativism | nativism The nature side of the NATURE-NURTURE PROBLEM; in PSYCHOLOGY this doctrine emphasises the influences of genetic inheritance and HEREDITY as opposed to learning , and the INNATE More… 0.3 KB |
| 23. | Natural monism | the point of view that all sciences are ultimately reducible to physics and chemistry. Thus, psychology would be reducible to physiology, physiology to physics and chemistry. |
| 24. | Natural sciences | the sciences dealing with physical and biological objects and processes. Psychology may be classified as natural science or as a social sience, depending upon the definer's point of More… 0.3 KB |
| 25. | Natural selection | DARWIN'S view of the way EVOLUTION took place where the fittest or best adapted members of a species in any generation survived in the struggle for existence. |