| 1. | Adam teasing | It's the counterpart to the concept of Eve teasing, where an individual or a group of females impose sexual harassment on a male. |
| 2. | Adaptation | 1- Fitting one’s behavior to meet the needs of one’s environment, which often involves a modification of impulses, emotions or attitudes.2- In Piaget's Theory of Development, there are More… 1.5 KB |
| 3. | Adaption | As used in connection with the senses, this refers to the fact that after continual stimulation a sense gradually loses its ability to respond. For example, after prolonged exposure to a More… 0.2 KB |
| 4. | Adaptive Reasoning | Adaptive reasoning refers to a problem solving strategy that adapts thinking to address a problem as it changes and evolves. Adaptive reasoning may also refer to the adaption of thought More… 1.0 KB |
| 5. | Adaptive reaction | A reaction toward a source of frustration that is reality-oriented; that is, oriented toward direct removal of the frustrating situation. |
| 6. | Adaptive reasoning | It refers to a problem solving strategy that adapts thinking to address a problem as it changes and evolves. Adaptive reasoning may also refer to the adaption of thought processes More… 0.9 KB |
| 7. | Adderall | Adderall is a brand-name drug psychostimulant composed of mixed amphetamine salts, which is thought to work by increasing the amount of norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain. Adderall is More… 5.1 KB |
| 8. | Addiction | Dependence on a chemical substance to the extent that a physiological and/or psychological need is established. This may be manifested by any combination of the following symptoms; More… 0.5 KB |
| 9. | Addisons disease | An endocrine disorder produced by cortisone insufficiency and marked by weight loss, fatigue, and a darkening of the skin. =Davidson, Gerald C. and John M. Neale. 1994. Abnormal More… 0.3 KB |
| 10. | Adie syndrome | Adie syndrome is caused by damage to the postganglionic fibers of the parasympathetic innervation of the eye and characterized by a tonically dilated pupil. This clinical picture is often More… 0.3 KB |
| 11. | Adjustment | Often transitory functional alteration or accommodation by which one can better adapt oneself to the immediate environment and to one’s inner self. |
| 12. | Adjustment disorder | An imprecise term referring to emotional or behavioral symptoms that develop in response to an identifiable stressor. The symptoms, which may include anxiety, depressed mood, and disturbance More… 0.7 KB |
| 13. | Adlerian | is an umbrella term that encompasses a diversity of approaches to psychology and psychotherapy generally related to the ideas of Alfred Adler. Main Branches : Classical Adlerian : More… 1.6 KB |
| 14. | Administrative psychiatry | The branch of psychiatry that deals with the organization of clinical practice in a program, hospital, or other facility. Its focus is on the management process involving interaction of More… 0.3 KB |
| 15. | Adolescence | A chronological period of accelerated physical and emotional growth leading to the sexual and psychological maturity. It often begins at about age 12 and ends at a loosely defined time, when More… 0.3 KB |
| 16. | Adoption study | Study of the heritability of a disorder by finding adopted people with a disorder and then determining the prevalence of the disorder among their biological and adoptive relatives, in order More… 0.3 KB |
| 17. | Adoptionism | Adoptionism, also known as dynamic monarchianism, was a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine later in his life. By these accounts, Jesus More… 2.0 KB |
| 18. | Adrenal glands | Two small areas of tissue located just above the kidneys. The inner core of each gland, the medulla, secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine; the outer cortex secretes cortisone and other More… 0.4 KB |
| 19. | Adrenalin | Hormone secreted by the adrenal glands (which are situated on top of the kidneys) in times of emergency or excitement. It increases the heart rate, the blood supply, the sugar supply from More… 0.4 KB |
| 20. | Adrenergic | Referring to neural activation by catecholamines, such as epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine. |
| 21. | Adrenergic system | 1- That system of organs and nerves in which catecholamines are the neurotransmitters. 2- All the nerve cells for which epinephrine and norepinephrine (and more broadly, other monoamines, More… 0.5 KB |
| 22. | Adroitness | |
| 23. | Adult intelligence | the measured intellectual level at which the curve of mental growth has ceased to rise. It's estimated at between 16 and 19 by most authorities, but some would advance the point to the More… 0.2 KB |
| 24. | Adultism | It is a predisposition towards adults, which some see as biased against children, youth, and all young people who are not addressed or viewed as adults. Adultism is popularly used to More… 0.4 KB |
| 25. | Advaita Vedanta | (literally, non-duality) is more often than not interpreted as monism/monistic system of thought. Otherwise known as Advaita Vedanta, it is a school of Vedānta (literally, end or the goal of More… 1.5 KB |
