| 151. | Abused child | A child or infant who has suffered repeated injuries, which may include bone fractures, neurologic and psychological damage, or sexual abuse at the hands of a parent, parents, or parent More… 0.4 KB |
| 152. | Abused children | Children who have been physically or psychologically harmed, typically by their parents, ("Normal corrections" in one culture may call for arrest in another.)Psychological abuse More… 0.3 KB |
| 153. | Academic Persistence | Remaining in school, as in not leaving high school or college before graduation. In the United State, there are concerns that certain groups (e.g., Latinos, American Indians) leave school More… 0.7 KB |
| 154. | Academic inhibition | Not doing as well in school (academically) as might be expected in terms of the student's aptitude for learning academic materials, interest in the topic or subject matter, and amount More… 0.2 KB |
| 155. | Academic problem | 1- A behavioral problem associated with children who do not want to, or are afraid to, go to school; who in school will not behave according to normal standards; who are defiant and More… 0.5 KB |
| 156. | Academic psychologist | An academic psychologist is a qualified psychologist who endorses the view that psychology is a scholarly and scientific enterprise, not an informal and intuitive practice. To qualify as an More… 0.8 KB |
| 157. | Academic skills disorders | Any of several disorders of childhood characterized by impairement in academic function in school. Specific forms include developmental arithmetic disorder, development expressive writing More… 0.3 KB |
| 158. | Academic-underachievement disorder | A problem characterized by a pattern of failing grades or significant underachievement in spite of adequate intellectual capacity and learning opportunity, but without evidence of a specific More… 0.3 KB |
| 159. | Acalculia | The inability to perform simple arithmetic operations. Generally used to refer to the loss of such ability resulting from injury and not for cases resulting from simple ignorance or lack of More… 0.2 KB |
| 160. | Acanthesthesia | A skin sensation in which the person experiences the feeling of pinpricks in the absence of an external stimulus. My result from disease or abuse of certain drugs. |
| 161. | Acarophobia | Morbid fear of itching or of skin parasites (mites), ants, worms, and, by extension, small objects such as pins and needless. |
| 162. | Acatamathesia | 1- The absence or loss of the ability to comprehend perceptions of objects or situation.2- Inability to comprehend speech. Also known as acatamathesis, akamathesia. |
| 163. | Acataphasia | 1- Inability to correctly from a sentence.2- The use of inappropriate or grammatically incorrect words and expressions. A speech disturbance found in patients with schizophrenia and patients More… 0.3 KB |
| 164. | Acathexis or acathexia | 1- In psychoanalysis, the absence of feeling ordinarily associated with emotionally charged ideas (for example, the patient is detached or indifferent when told of an event that usually More… 0.3 KB |
| 165. | Accelerated interaction | The heightened level of emotional interaction reached for example, by members of a marathon group, due to continuous proximity for an extended period of time. |
| 166. | Acceleration | Properly, the term refers not simply to increasing change in some variable, but to the rate of the increase in the change, Consider the following series of numbers, each of which represents, More… 0.8 KB |
| 167. | Acceleration (psychology) | 1- The act of accelerating.2- A change of velocity.3- A change in the speed of motion (such as the rate of growth), usually indicated on a graph by the amount of rise or fall per unit of More… 0.5 KB |
| 168. | Accent (psychology) | 1- Emphasis, rhythm as marked by the patterns of stress in a series of words, tones, beats, etc.2- An individual speech patterns in a language which reflect habits of pronunciation acquired More… 0.3 KB |
| 169. | Accentuation theory | A point of view that there is a tendency to exaggerate the degree of similarities between items placed in the same category and to exaggerate dissimilarities of items placed in different More… 0.2 KB |
| 170. | Acceptance | The receptive, approachable, caring quality of people (such as psychotherapists and teachers) who convey respect and regard for their patients and students as individuals. In general, a More… 0.2 KB |
| 171. | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy | Branch of cognitive-behavioral therapy, an empirically based psychological intervention, that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change More… 2.0 KB |
| 172. | Acceptance region | In statistical hypothesis testing, the values of the test statistic for which the null hypothesis is not rejected. |
| 173. | Acceptance stage | The fifth and last stage in Kubler-Ross' stages of dying, characterized by a consent and willingness to die. |
| 174. | Acceptor | A person who has learned to cope with unresolved personality conflicts by accepting them. |
| 175. | Access (psychology) | In addition to the standard dictionary meaning, the term is often used metaphorically to refer to retrieval of information from memory. It was borrowed from computer-sciences terminology and More… 0.3 KB |