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Patterns associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals.

Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, COMMITMENT OF PERSONS WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, the psychiatrist's role in co…

A specialty in professional psychology characterized by activities primarily intended to provide professional psychological expertise within the judi…

Excusing or pardoning for an offense or release of anger or resentment.

The sensory discrimination of a pattern, shape, or outline.

Information communicated to the learner that is intended to modify the learner’s thinking or behavior for the purpose of improving learning.

Spontaneous verbalization of whatever comes to mind.

An induced response to threatening stimuli characterized by the cessation of body movements, except for those that are involved with BREATHING, and t…

Philosophic formulations which are basic to psychoanalysis. Some of the conceptual theories developed were of the libido, repression, regression, tra…

The motivational and/or affective state resulting from being blocked, thwarted, disappointed or defeated.

Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as …

An activity distinguished primarily by an element of risk in trying to obtain a desired goal, e.g., playing a game of chance for money.

A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental res…

Social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are considered acceptable based on person's biological sex.

The phenomenon of an organism's responding to all situations similar to one in which it has been conditioned.

The principle that after an organism learns to respond in a particular manner to a stimulus, that stimulus is effective in eliciting similar response…

The tendency to react to stimuli that are different from, but somewhat similar to, the stimulus used as a conditioned stimulus.

The theory that human CHARACTER and BEHAVIOR are shaped by the GENES that comprise the individual's GENOTYPE rather than by CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; and…

The experimental study of the relationship between the genotype of an organism and its behavior. The scope includes the effects of genes on simple se…

A subspecialty of psychiatry concerned with the mental health of the aged.

A system which emphasizes that experience and behavior contain basic patterns and relationships which cannot be reduced to simpler components; that i…

A form of psychotherapy with emphasis on the interplay of organism and environment. Basic to this therapy is the development of awareness and maturit…

Females who allow themselves to be impregnated with the understanding that the offspring are to be given over to the parents who have commissioned th…

Movement of a part of the body for the purpose of communication.

The bestowing of tangible or intangible benefits, voluntarily and usually without expectation of anything in return. However, gift giving may be moti…

The end-result or objective, which may be specified or required in advance.

Member of a family who has children and grandchildren.

Normal, appropriate sorrowful response to an immediate cause. It is self-limiting and gradually subsides within a reasonable time.

Treatment that helps a person work through a greater than normal reaction to a loss, such as the death of a loved one. Therapy may be individual or …

An animal's cleaning and caring for the body surface. This includes preening, the cleaning and oiling of feathers with the bill or of hair with the t…