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1. Haabs pupillary reflex the contraction of both irises when the gaze is directed toward a source of light in a darkened room.
2. Habenula a collection of fibers in the epithalamus.
3. Habit a learned automatized response pattern. Habits are secondarily known as 'automatic actions'. a habit originates in voluntary actions performed with effort, but on frequent More… 2.2 KB
4. Habit complaint Habit complaint : A hypochondriacal tendency in certain children who react to emotional or other problems with health complaints.
5. Habit deterioration dicorganization a tedency of patients to regress in social nehavior to less integrated patterns as a result of mental or physical illnesses.
6. Habit disorders Habit disorders : Repeated maladaptive actions thet interfere with biological and social functioning.
7. Habit disturbance of children Habit disturbance of children : Repetitive, maladaptive behaviors of children, such as nail biting, thumb sucking, or head banging. Often these habits are indicators that children are More… 0.2 KB
8. Habit family hierarchy the arrangement in a preferential order of alternate routes to a goal. When the most preferred route or response is blocked, a less favored one will appear.
9. Habit formation Habit formation : The process, usually assumed to come about through repetition, whereby a response becomes gradually fixed in a relatively invariable and automatic form.
10. Habit hierarchy Several simpler habits when integrated into a complex habit, it is called hierarchy habit, for example, typing is a complex habit in which some simpler habits like word habit, letter habit, More… 0.2 KB
11. Habit interference The same as 'negative transfer'. In such transfer the previous learningobstructs a later learning of some other subject matter.
12. Habit reversal A behavior process in which the individual must learn a new correct response to a stimulus and stop responding to a previously learned cue. Employed in behavioral conditioning to control More… 0.3 KB
13. Habit strenght "C.L Hull" learned strength of a habit that varies with the number of reinforcements, amount of reinforcement, and interval between stimulus and response and between response and More… 0.5 KB
14. Habit trait One can find the consistent behaviour of a person, that is, his personality trait from his habit of generalization of conditioning. For instance, if a child becomes highly tense in the More… 0.4 KB
15. Habituation In physiology, a process whereby an organism's response to the same stimulus temporarily lessens with repeated presentations.
16. Habituation method a technique used to study perception in infants. It is based on the fact that while infants look directly at novel objects they soon tire of doing so (habitation). Hence one can determine More… 0.3 KB
17. Hacktivism Hacktivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism) is "the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. These tools include web site More… 1.8 KB
18. Haematoma the collection of blood in tissues or a space following rupture of a blood vessel.
19. Haemophilus ducreyi Haemophilus ducreyi is a fastidious Gram-negative coccobacillus causing the sexually transmitted disease chancroid characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. Another early symptom is More… 0.5 KB
20. Haemorrhage abnormal internal or external discharge of blood. May be venous, arterial or capillary from blood vessels into tissues, into or from the body, Venous blood is dark red, flow is continuous. More… 0.3 KB
21. Hair cells in audition, hairlike receptors in the cochlea that bend due to vibration of the basilar membrance and been send electrical impulses to the brain.
22. Hakomi therapy A form of body-centered, somatic psychotherapy developed by Ron Kurtz in the 1970s and furthered by a group led by Kurtz in the 80s. According to the creator, the Hakomi method combines More… 2.3 KB
23. Hal Stone Ph.D., (born December 14, 1927), and Sidra Stone, Ph.D., (born April 15, 1937), are an American authors, psychotherapists and the creators of Voice Dialogue. Hal Stone received a Ph.D. in More… 0.9 KB
24. Halfway house (in USA) : is a residential center where sex offenders, the mentally ill, drug users, or convicted felons are placed immediately after their release from a primary institution such as a More… 1.1 KB
25. Hallucination Hallucination is an abnormal perception in the true sense of the term. It is a false perception of an object where is none. Many mental patients are in a state of constant hallucinations More… 2.7 KB

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