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1. K Y Jelly K-Y Jelly is a water-based, water-soluble personal lubricant produced by Johnson & Johnson. According to the company, "The origins of the brand name 'K-Y' are unknown. Two More… 2.3 KB
2. K-line A K-line, or Knowledge-line, is a mental agent which represents an association of a group of other mental agents found active when a subject solves a certain problem or formulates a new More… 0.9 KB
3. Kahanism Kahanism is a term, named after controversial Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane. It refers to an organization and, more generally, to other movements or groups that share a belief in the fundamental More… 0.5 KB
4. Kairos (Greek--fitness, opportunity, time) In existential psychology, the moment when a person gains insight into the meaning of an important event, past or future. A moment of heightened More… 0.2 KB
5. Kallikak fictitious name for a family with two lines of descendants; one of normal and superior people, the other of delinquents, psychotics, and mental defectives. The family was studies by H. H. More… 0.3 KB
6. Kappa effect alteration in the apparent interstimulus interval when the distance between two successively presented stimuli is altered.
7. Karen Horney born Danielsen (Sep 16, 1885 – Dec 4, 1952) was a German psychodynamic psychologist (or at that time, psychoanalyst) of Norwegian and Dutch descent. Her theories questioned some traditional More… 2.8 KB
8. Karl Augustus Menninger (Jul 22, 1893 - Jul 18, 1990), born in Kansas, was an American psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the More… 3.3 KB
9. Karl Leonhard Karl Leonhard (Mar 21, 1904 in Edelsfeld, Bavaria, Germany – Apr 23, 1988 in East Berlin, GDR) was a German psychiatrist, who stood in the tradition of Carl Wernicke and Karl Kleist. He More… 2.7 KB
10. Karl Spencer Lashley (1890–1958), an American psychologist and behaviorist well-remembered for his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. His failure to find a single biological locus of More… 2.5 KB
11. Kashmir Shaivism Among the various Hindu philosophies, Kaśmir Śaivism is a school of Śaivism categorized by various scholars as monistic idealism (absolute idealism, theistic monism, realistic idealism, More… 0.8 KB
12. Katasexual Characteristic of sexuality in which dead partners are the sexual goals !
13. Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder, having suffered from the disorder since her early-mid twenties. More… 3.3 KB
14. Keirsey Temperament Sorter The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves, first introduced in the book Please Understand Me. KTS More… 0.4 KB
15. Ken Wilber Ken Wilber was born on January 31, 1949 in Oklahoma City, OK. In 1967 he enrolled as a pre-med student at Duke University, and almost immediately experienced a disillusionment with what More… 2.6 KB
16. Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr (born Jan 31, 1949) is an American author who writes on psychology, philosophy, mysticism, ecology, and spiritual evolution. He has been described as New Age, although his writings are More… 0.6 KB
17. Kenneth Gergen (born 1935) is an American psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. He obtained his B.A. at Yale University in 1957 and his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1962. The son of John J. More… 2.4 KB
18. Kent L Norman is an American cognitive psychologist and an expert on Computer Rage. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the More… 1.3 KB
19. Kent-Rosanofftest Kent-RosanofftestA FREE ASSOCIATION test of 100 words together with a standardised list of the relative FREQUENCY of people's responses to them.
20. Kettlewell
21. Kharkov School of Psychology Kharkov School of Psychology is a tradition of developmental psychological research conducted in the paradigm of Lev Vygotsky's "sociocultural theory of mind" and More… 2.3 KB
22. Kierkegaardianism a set of philosophical, theological and psychological positions based on the work of the 19th century Danish philosopher Soren Aabye Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard's work focuses on the More… 0.5 KB
23. Kinephantom an illusion of movement, particularly in a shadow movement, such as that which occurs when the shadows of the spokes of a weel are seen moving in the opposite direction from that of the More… 0.2 KB
24. Kinesics The study of body posture, movement, and facial expressions.
25. Kinesthesis the muscle, tendon, and joint sense. Along with the static sense in the inner ear, this combination of senses yields information about the position of the limbs and body in space. The More… 0.7 KB

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