| 1. | Hanfmann kasanin Concept formation test | a test of the subject's ability to arrange blocks of various colors, shapes, heights, and widths into four categories. The performance is analysed in terms in terms of the types of More… 0.4 KB |
| 2. | M'Naghten Rule | Legal principle stating that an accused criminal must have been suffering from a mental disease at the time he or she committed a crime and have known neither the nature and quality of the More… 0.5 KB |
| 3. | MacDonald triad | (also called the triad of sociopathy) is a set of three behavioral characteristics which are associated with sociopathic behavior. The triad was first identified by J.M. Macdonald in More… 1.1 KB |
| 4. | Macdonald triad | (also called the triad of sociopathy) is a set of three behavioral characteristics which are associated with sociopathic behavior. The triad was first identified by J.M. Macdonald in More… 1.1 KB |
| 5. | Machiavellianism | Personality psychologists use this term to describe a person's tendency to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain. A less technical variant of the term is fawce. In the 1960s, More… 1.3 KB |
| 6. | Machine theory | the point of view that behavior or nervous processes may be treated as if they were the expressions of an elaborate machine. the general point of view is called mechanism and is often More… 0.3 KB |
| 7. | Machismo | Machismo is a prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity. As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of virility to a more extreme male chauvinism. In many cultures, machismo More… 1.3 KB |
| 8. | Machover draw a person test | a projective technique in which the subject is required to draw a person. Completion of the drawing is followed by requesting the subject to tell a story about the drawing. Analysis is based More… 0.3 KB |
| 9. | Madonna whore complex | In Freudian psychoanalysis, a Madonna-whore complex is a psychological complex that is said to develop in the human male. The term is also used popularly, often with subtly different More… 1.4 KB |
| 10. | Magic thinking | magic thinking Any attempt to understand and manipulate the human condition by recourse to supernatural powers. In particular the term is used to describe the belief that there is a causal More… 0.5 KB |
| 11. | Magical thinking | According to James George Frazer, magical thinking depends on two laws: the law of similarity (an effect resembles its cause), and the law of contagion (things which were once in physical More… 3.2 KB |
| 12. | Magnetic resonance imaging | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), is primarily a medical imaging technique most commonly used in radiology to visualize the structure and More… 2.0 KB |
| 13. | Magnetoencephalography | (MEG) is an imaging technique used to measure the magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the brain via extremely sensitive devices such as superconducting quantum interference More… 0.5 KB |
| 14. | Main effect | In the design of experiments and analysis of variance, a main effect is the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable averaging across the levels of any other independent More… 0.5 KB |
| 15. | Major depressive disorder | (also called clinical depression, major depression, unipolar disorder or unipolar depression) is a mental disorder characterized by a pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of More… 3.0 KB |
| 16. | Maladaptation | 1. failure of a species to develop the biological characteristics that make for successful survival. 2. an improper synonym for maladjustment |
| 17. | Male | Male (♂) refers to the sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in More… 1.3 KB |
| 18. | Malignant narcissism | Otto Kernberg described malignant narcissism as a syndrome characterized by a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial features, paranoid traits, and ego-syntonic aggression. An More… 2.3 KB |
| 19. | Malingering | Is a medical and psychological term that refers to an individual fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of motives, including getting More… 0.7 KB |
| 20. | Malleus | The malleus or hammer is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear which connects with the incus and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum. The word is Latin for More… 0.6 KB |
| 21. | Malpractice | 1- behavior on the part of a professional individual, such as a clinician or physician, that is contrary to ethical codes. For a clinician to reveal information given in therapy would More… 0.3 KB |
| 22. | Mammillary bodies | The mammillary bodies (mamillary bodies) are a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system. They are located at the ends of the More… 0.4 KB |
| 23. | Man and His Symbols | Man and His Symbols is the last psychological work undertaken by Jung Carl Gustav before his death in 1961. First published in 1964, it is divided into five parts, four of which are written More… 0.6 KB |
| 24. | Man to man rating | the comparison of an individual with a group of individuals who show different degrees of the traits being rated. |
| 25. | Managed care | The term managed care is used to describe a variety of techniques intended to reduce the cost of providing health benefits and improve the quality of care ("managed care More… 1.8 KB |