| 1. | Obedience | A form of social influence based upon direct commands or orders. Evidence gathered by Stanley Milgram and others suggests that many persons have a strong tendency to obey the commands of More… 0.2 KB |
| 2. | Object | 1- any part of the environment of which the individual is aware —a material thing, a person, or an abstraction. 2- an end or goal. 3- the person or thing eliciting an instinctive reaction. More… 0.3 KB |
| 3. | Object attitude | In structuralistic psychology, the attitude in which the subject attends to the stimulus and not to his or her experience |
| 4. | Object blindness | a disorder in which one is unable to recognize visually presented objects because of brain injury in the visual association areas. |
| 5. | Object cathexis | object cathexis Used in PSYCHOANALYSIS to signify the choice of a love object , usually involving the diversion of LIBIDO from a sexual to a non-sexual object. |
| 6. | Object choice | In the psychology of sex, the type of person or thing selected as a focus for sexual desire or activity. |
| 7. | Object constancy | object constancy The way familiar objects are perceived in the same manner regardless of changes in the perceptual environment such as lighting , placement and distance. |
| 8. | Object libido | object libido In PSYCHOANALYSIS, where LIBIDO is directed towards other objects rather than towards oneself as in NARCISSISM. |
| 9. | Object loss | object loss In PSYCHOANALYSIS , the loss of love from a valued external object. |
| 10. | Object permanence | According to Piaget, the awareness that objects continue to exist even when they are not present to be seen, touched or sensed. |
| 11. | Object relations theory | A psychodynamic theory within psychoanalytic psychology. The theory explicates the dynamic process of developing a mind as one grows in relation to real others in the environment. The More… 19.8 KB |
| 12. | Object-relations school | object-relations school A group of British psychoanalysts, including Ronald Fairbairn, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott who emphasised the importance of emotional relationships formed More… 0.4 KB |
| 13. | Objective | objective Usually used to refer to something existing outside of oneself and capable of being experienced with others. |
| 14. | Objective idealism | Objective idealism is an idealistic metaphysics that postulates that there is in an important sense only one perceiver, and that this perceiver is one with that which is perceived. One More… 1.5 KB |
| 15. | Objective tests | are psychological tests that measure an individual's characteristics in a way that is independent of rater bias or the individual's own beliefs. Objective tests are often More… 1.3 KB |
| 16. | Objectivism | Objectivism is a philosophy developed by Ayn Rand in the 20th century that encompasses integrated positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Ayn Rand More… 1.5 KB |
| 17. | Obliviscence | 1- forgetfulness. 2- the tendency for ideas to gradually disappear with time. |
| 18. | Obscene phone call | An obscene phone call is an unsolicited telephone call where the caller attempts to annoy or frighten the called party, usually by sexual or foul language. Making obscene telephone calls for More… 1.1 KB |
| 19. | Obscenity | gestures, launguage, printed material, or pictures that violate established codes of propriety. The precise definition of obscenity or the decision as to whether a given act or object is More… 0.4 KB |
| 20. | Observation | is either an activity of a living being (such as a human), consisting of receiving knowledge of the outside world through the senses, or the recording of data using scientific instruments. More… 0.3 KB |
| 21. | Observational learning | (also called : vicarious learning or social learning or modeling or monkey see, monkey do) is learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and, in the case of imitation More… 0.6 KB |
| 22. | Observer effect | In experimental research, it refers to changes that the act of observing will make on the phenomenon being observed. It has application in many fields of scientific inquiry, and may refer More… 0.5 KB |
| 23. | Observer expectancy effect | The observer-expectancy effect (also called the experimenter-expectancy effect, observer effect, or experimenter effect) is a form of reactivity, in which a researcher's cognitive bias More… 1.0 KB |
| 24. | Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder | (OCPD) is often confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Despite the similar names, they are two distinct disorders, although some OCPD individuals also suffer from OCD, and the More… 5.2 KB |
| 25. | Obsessive Relational Intrusion | (ORI) is a term used in criminal psychology research used to describe the willful and continued intrusion into the personal life of a victim by an aspiring or former relational partner. ORI More… 0.4 KB |