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1. Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism also called anthrocentrism is the belief that humans must be considered at the center of, and above any other aspect of, reality. This concept is sometimes known as More… 1.7 KB
2. Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. More… 1.5 KB
3. Anti realism In philosophy, the term anti-realism is used to describe any position involving either the denial of an objective reality of entities of a certain type or the denial that More… 1.0 KB
4. Anti vaccinationism A vaccine controversy is a dispute over the morality, ethics, effectiveness, or safety of vaccination. Medical opinion is that the benefits of preventing suffering and death from infectious More… 0.5 KB
5. Anti-Victim Anti-Victim is a term used to describe an individual who pro-actively develops and uses protective and problem-solving behaviors to prevent, avoid, and prepare to act against violent or More… 0.6 KB
6. Anti-communism Anti-communism refers to opposition to communism. Historically, the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and their supporters, More… 1.4 KB
7. Anti-fascism Anti-fascism is the opposition to fascist ideologies, organizations, governments and people. There is a difference between anti-fascism as a political movement, and personal opposition to More… 2.7 KB
8. Anticipatory socialisation An aspect of Socialisation where an individual prepares for a future role by taking on values and Attitudes associated with the role before actually occupying it. Used in Work and Consumer More… 0.2 KB
9. Anticonformity Opposition to social influence on all occasions, often caused by psychological reactance.
10. Antidepressants An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication used for alleviating major depression or dysthymia . Drug groups known as MAOIs, tricyclics, and second-generation antidepressants such as More… 5.7 KB
11. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH); is a hormone released by the posterior pituitary that increases the capacity of the kidney tubules to reabsorb water, thereby reducing urinary output.
12. Antidromic impulse passage of a nervous impulse in a reverse direction, from axon to dendrite. Antidromic impulses do not occur naturally, but are induced for experimental reasons.
13. Antilocution Antilocution is a term defined by psychologist Gordon Allport in his book the Nature of Prejudice, 1954. Antilocution defines verbal remarks against a person, group or community, which are More… 0.6 KB
14. Antinomianism Antinomianism (from the Greek ἀντί, "against" + νόμος, "law"), or lawlessness (in the Greek Bible: ἀνομία, "unlawful"), in theology, is the idea that members More… 0.8 KB
15. Antipsychotics Antipsychotics are a group of psychoactive drugs usually but not entirely utilized to treat psychosis, which is typified by schizophrenia. Over time a lot of antipsychotics have been formed. More… 21.8 KB
16. Antisocial personality Characterised by lack of conscience. such a person has not internalised the valeus of his society and seems to feel no Guilt or Anxiety in behaving criminally, and even committing murder. More… 0.4 KB
17. Antisocial personality disorder Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and More… 0.8 KB
18. Antonym tests a test in which a subject must give the opposites to a series of words.
19. Oralism Oralism is the education of deaf students that came into popular use in the United States around the late 1860s. Oralism is the education of deaf students that uses spoken language More… 1.0 KB

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