| 1. | Obedience | A form of social influence based upon direct commands or orders. Evidence gathered by Stanley Milgram and others suggests that many persons have a strong tendency to obey the commands of More… 0.2 KB |
| 2. | Object | 1- any part of the environment of which the individual is aware —a material thing, a person, or an abstraction. 2- an end or goal. 3- the person or thing eliciting an instinctive reaction. More… 0.3 KB |
| 3. | Object attitude | In structuralistic psychology, the attitude in which the subject attends to the stimulus and not to his or her experience |
| 4. | Object blindness | a disorder in which one is unable to recognize visually presented objects because of brain injury in the visual association areas. |
| 5. | Object choice | In the psychology of sex, the type of person or thing selected as a focus for sexual desire or activity. |
| 6. | Object permanence | According to Piaget, the awareness that objects continue to exist even when they are not present to be seen, touched or sensed. |
| 7. | Object relations theory | A psychodynamic theory within psychoanalytic psychology. The theory explicates the dynamic process of developing a mind as one grows in relation to real others in the environment. The More… 19.8 KB |
| 8. | Objective idealism | Objective idealism is an idealistic metaphysics that postulates that there is in an important sense only one perceiver, and that this perceiver is one with that which is perceived. One More… 1.5 KB |
| 9. | Objective tests | are psychological tests that measure an individual's characteristics in a way that is independent of rater bias or the individual's own beliefs. Objective tests are often More… 1.3 KB |
| 10. | Objectivism | Objectivism is a philosophy developed by Ayn Rand in the 20th century that encompasses integrated positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Ayn Rand More… 1.5 KB |
| 11. | Obliviscence | 1- forgetfulness. 2- the tendency for ideas to gradually disappear with time. |
| 12. | Obscene phone call | An obscene phone call is an unsolicited telephone call where the caller attempts to annoy or frighten the called party, usually by sexual or foul language. Making obscene telephone calls for More… 1.1 KB |
| 13. | Obscenity | gestures, launguage, printed material, or pictures that violate established codes of propriety. The precise definition of obscenity or the decision as to whether a given act or object is More… 0.4 KB |
| 14. | Observation | is either an activity of a living being (such as a human), consisting of receiving knowledge of the outside world through the senses, or the recording of data using scientific instruments. More… 0.3 KB |
| 15. | Observational learning | (also called : vicarious learning or social learning or modeling or monkey see, monkey do) is learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and, in the case of imitation More… 0.6 KB |
| 16. | Observer effect | In experimental research, it refers to changes that the act of observing will make on the phenomenon being observed. It has application in many fields of scientific inquiry, and may refer More… 0.5 KB |
| 17. | Observer expectancy effect | The observer-expectancy effect (also called the experimenter-expectancy effect, observer effect, or experimenter effect) is a form of reactivity, in which a researcher's cognitive bias More… 1.0 KB |
| 18. | Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder | (OCPD) is often confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Despite the similar names, they are two distinct disorders, although some OCPD individuals also suffer from OCD, and the More… 5.2 KB |
| 19. | Obsessive Relational Intrusion | (ORI) is a term used in criminal psychology research used to describe the willful and continued intrusion into the personal life of a victim by an aspiring or former relational partner. ORI More… 0.4 KB |
| 20. | Obsessive compulsive disorder | (OCD) is a mental disorder most commonly characterized by intrusive, repetitive thoughts resulting in compulsive behaviors and mental acts that the person feels driven to perform, according More… 1.8 KB |
| 21. | Obsessive compulsive neurosis | Obsessive compulsive neurosis a psychneurosis characterized by persistent and often unwanted ideas (obsessions) and impulses to carry out compulsions, or irrational, stereotyped, and More… 0.5 KB |
| 22. | Obstetrics and gynaecology | Obstetrics and Gynecology (often abbreviated to OB/GYN, O&G or Obs & Gynae) are the two surgical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs, and as such are often More… 2.3 KB |
| 23. | Occipital lobe | The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain containing most of the anatomical region of the visual cortex. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann area 17, More… 0.8 KB |
| 24. | Occupational Therapy | often abbreviated as "OT", incorporates meaningful and purposeful occupation to enable people with limitations or impairments to participate in everyday life. Occupational More… 0.5 KB |
| 25. | Occupational health psychology | (OHP) is concerned with the psychosocial characteristics of workplaces that contribute to the development of health-related problems in people who work. OHP is concerned about equally with More… 1.3 KB |
