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Standardized tests that measure the present general ability or aptitude for intellectual performance.

What a person has in mind to do or bring about.

Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cr…

The interactions between individuals of different generations. These interactions include communication, caring, accountability, loyalty, and even co…

Alternating between fasting for an extended period of time during the day and eating during a restricted time for the day.

Personality construct referring to an individual's perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his or her own behavior versus fate,…

Problematic, compulsive Internet use that results in significant impairment of person's function in daily life.

The perception of and sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body. It is a sense of the physiological condition of the entire body.

Interpersonal modification of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Therapy is present-focused and seeks to resolve problems in interpersonal relations. Aspec…

The reciprocal interaction of two or more persons.

The reciprocal interaction of two or more professional individuals.

Interconnections of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disa…

A directed conversation aimed at eliciting information for psychiatric diagnosis, evaluation, treatment planning, etc. The interview may be conducted…

A state in which attention is largely directed inward upon one's self.

Knowing or understanding without conscious use of reasoning. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1994)

Abnormal or excessive excitability with easily triggered anger, annoyance, or impatience.

An irrational reaction compounded of grief, loss of self-esteem, enmity against the rival and and self-criticism.

Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation.

The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or concepts; a faculty or power that enables a person …

A theoretical psychoanalytical system centered around symbols of the unconscious with the unconscious material derived from two sources - the persona…

Systematic study of the body and the use of its static and dynamic position as a means of communication.

Anxiety disorder of persistent and irrational fear of movement following an injury. It is related to perceived disability due to injury and CATASTROP…

Locomotor behavior not involving a steering reaction, but in which there may be a turning random in direction. It includes orthokinesis, the rate of …

A principle that learning is facilitated when the learner receives immediate evaluation of learning performance. The concept also hypothesizes that l…

A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the individu…

Psychoanalytic theory begun by Jacques Lacan as a philosophical linguistic re-interpretation of Freud's original teachings (see FREUDIAN THEORY).

A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.

The gradual expansion in complexity and meaning of symbols and sounds as perceived and interpreted by the individual through a maturational and learn…

Tests designed to assess language behavior and abilities. They include tests of vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and functional use of language, e.…

The period from about 5 to 7 years to adolescence when there is an apparent cessation of psychosexual development.