| 1. | J curve | a curve describing the frequency of compliance with a rule or standard. A commonly cited example is the manner in which automobile drivers comply with a stop sign. Some stop completely, some More… 0.4 KB |
| 2. | Jack Barchas | Jack Barchas, M.D. is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief More… 1.2 KB |
| 3. | Jackson law principle | Jackson law principle : A point of view that when there is a loss of a mental function due to disease or natural deterioration, the higher and the more recently developed functions are lost More… 0.2 KB |
| 4. | Jacksonian democracy | Jacksonian Democracy refers to the political philosophy of United States President Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Jackson's policies followed in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson. More… 1.8 KB |
| 5. | Jacksonian epilepsy | Jacksonian epilepsy : A type of epilepsy characterized by convulsions on the side of the body contralateral to the cortical locus of the disturbance. Typically the convulsions spread from More… 0.4 KB |
| 6. | Jacob Levy Moreno | Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno (May 18, 1889 Bucharest, Romania — May 14, 1974 New York, USA, ) is The founder of psychodrama, sociometry and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy. He was also More… 4.7 KB |
| 7. | Jacob membrance | Jacob membrance : A stratum of the retina along the posterior wall of the eye, consisting of the rods and cones, the outer parts of the neuroepithelial cells constituting the end-organs (or More… 0.3 KB |
| 8. | Jacobson organ | Jacobson organ : In snakes and many mammals, an olfactory receptor located in the top part of the mouth, in snakes, a basic chemoreceptor; in mammals, a pheromone detector. Also kn own as More… 0.2 KB |
| 9. | Jacobson relaxation method | Jacobson relaxation method : Based on the maxim "Contract and then Relax" a treatment procedure for people in stressful situations and who cannot sleep or are on the verge of More… 0.4 KB |
| 10. | Jacques Hassoun | Jacques Hassoun (1936-1999); French psychologist and proponent of the ideas of Jacques Lacan. Hassoun developed a theory of depression and, in his later years, wrote a history of Egyptian More… 1.9 KB |
| 11. | Jacques Lacan | (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in More… 1.1 KB |
| 12. | Jactitation or jactation | extreme restlessness or tossing about. |
| 13. | James Dewey Watson | James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were More… 1.4 KB |
| 14. | James George Frazer | Sir James George Frazer (Jan 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland – May 7, 1941, Cambridge), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and More… 0.5 KB |
| 15. | James Jerome Gibson | James Jerome Gibson (Jan 27, 1904–Dec 11, 1979) : American psychologist who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Psychology, considered one of the most important More… 1.5 KB |
| 16. | James William | (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist, James graduated from Harvard Medical School but never practices medicine. However, as a Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Harvard More… 0.5 KB |
| 17. | James lang theory of the emotions | a formulation that attempts to integrate the conscious and behavioral aspects of the emotions. Lange, a danish physiologist, had argued that emotional processes are identical with changes in More… 0.7 KB |
| 18. | Jan van der Lans | Johannes (Jan) Maria van der Lans (July 10, 1933-2002) was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now called Radboud University More… 1.5 KB |
| 19. | Janet Pierre | (1859-1947) French psychiatrist who first provided solid empirical evidence for the existence of unconscious (subconscious) mental processes. He advanced the concept of mental dissociation More… 0.5 KB |
| 20. | Japanese bondage | Kinbaku is the word for "erotic bondage" or Kinbaku-bi which means "beautiful bondage". Kinbaku (also Sokubaku) is a Japanese style of sexual bondage or BDSM which More… 1.9 KB |
| 21. | Jealousy | An attitude of envy toward another because of affection that individual shows to a third person. |
| 22. | Jealousy Delusional | Delusional jealousy, Morbid jealousy, or Othello syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that their spouse or sexual partner is being unfaithful. The More… 1.6 KB |
| 23. | Jean Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, More… 2.5 KB |
| 24. | Jean-Gabriel De Tarde | French sociologist (Mar 12, 1843 in Sarlat, France – May 13, 1904 in Paris) , social psychologist and criminologist he conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among More… 1.7 KB |
| 25. | Jean-Martin Charcot | Jean-Martin Charcot (29 Nov 1825 – 16 Aug 1893) : French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is admitted as "the founder of modern neurology" and is "related More… 4.0 KB |
