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Field of social science that is concerned with differences between human groups as related to health status and beliefs.

The ability to foresee what is likely to happen on the basis of past experience. It is largely a frontal lobe function.

Feelings or emotions of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS.

Anxiety due to fantasized injuries to or loss of the genitals.

Lack of emotion or emotional expression; a disorder of motivation that persists over time.

Natural recurring desire for food. Alterations may be induced by APPETITE DEPRESSANTS or APPETITE STIMULANTS.

Animal searching behavior. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behavior pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential cour…

Behavioral science applied with the aim of improving socially important issues such as behavior problems and learning. For individuals diagnosed with…

The ability to acquire general or special types of knowledge or skill.

Primarily non-verbal tests designed to predict an individual's future learning ability or performance.

The use of fragrances and essences from plants to affect or alter a person's mood or behavior and to facilitate physical, mental, and emotional well-…

Cortical vigilance or readiness of tone, presumed to be in response to sensory stimulation via the reticular activating system.

The use of art as an adjunctive therapy in the treatment of neurological, mental, or behavioral disorders.

Strong desires to accomplish something. This usually pertains to greater values or high ideals.

Strongly insistent, self-assured, and demanding behavior.

A functional relationship between psychological phenomena of such nature that the presence of one tends to evoke the other; also, the process by whic…

The principle that items experienced together enter into a connection, so that one tends to reinstate the other.

Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.

An increased focus or awareness of certain stimuli over others, which influence behavior.

Temporary visual deficit or impaired visual processing occurring in a rapid serial visual presentation task. After a person identifies the first of t…

An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of read…

Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.

The attitude and behavior associated with an individual using the computer.

Conceptual response of the person to the various aspects of death, which are based on individual psychosocial and cultural experience.

Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.

Loss of sensitivity to sounds as a result of auditory stimulation, manifesting as a temporary shift in auditory threshold. The temporary threshold sh…

The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized, and interpreted by the organism.

The personality pattern or syndrome consisting of behavioral and attitudinal characteristics reflecting a preoccupation with the factors of power and…

Technique based on muscle relaxation during self-hypnotic exercises. It is used in conjunction with psychotherapy.

Automatic, mechanical, and apparently undirected behavior which is outside of conscious control.