Sentences with phrase «of psychological terms»

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychological Terms.

The other part is giving that consistent answer, and that is really based of a psychological term called an extinction burst and it basically means this, if you give your child the same answer to their same question, they will first go, oh, you changed to answer to this question.

I am sure that you are aware of the psychological term «cognitive dissonance».

Of course I just thought of the psychological term I couldn't come up with when I was making my reply before and it's PLANNING FALLACY.

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Schizophrenia is a long - term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms, ranging from changes in behavior through to hallucinations and delusions.

«As term structure strengthens and perhaps even inverts, the psychological impact of locking in future fuel prices below near - dated and spot prices should also embolden consumer hedging.»

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Historically - reliable valuation measures are remarkably useful in projecting long - term and full - cycle market outcomes, but the behavior of the market over shorter segments of the market cycle is driven by the psychological inclination of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.

In a twist of great irony, the reason so many of us embrace the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is because from a psychological standpoint, it preserves our immediate to short - term feeling of well - being by disassociating ourselves from reality and encouraging inaction, even though from a long - term perspective, it is very likely to destroy our self - preservation abilities.

The field of behavioral finance has shone a spotlight on the psychological reasons why individuals fall prey to certain decision - making pitfalls, including short - term behavior that prejudices long - term investment performance.

While long - term and full - cycle market outcomes are tightly determined by market valuations, the effect of valuations on outcomes over shorter segments of the market cycle depends on the psychological preference of investors toward speculation or risk aversion.

The central message of our discipline is that valuations are enormously informative about prospects for long - term and full - cycle returns, but that outcomes over shorter segments of the market cycle are driven by changes in the psychological preferences of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.

We tend, quite properly, to relativize human frailties in terms of a social and psychological situationalism.

Is AA's effectiveness in producing long - term sobriety the result of the resolving of psychological conflicts which lie at the roots of alcoholism, or is it the result of an effective means of keeping the conflicts repressed or under control?

Using modern terms, we should say that the Bible records a development of thought about human nature in both its sociological and psychological aspects.

It had not yet been seen that the subject - predicate form can be viewed as a special case of a more general account of logical terms, functions, and relations: a true «logic of manifolds,» as Cassirer calls it (SF 72), eschewing any psychological elements, was yet to emerge.

However, he makes a mistake in framing the question of the psychological status of same - sex attraction in terms of its correlation with psychological adjustment or maladjustment.

First, it presses toward the elimination of any distinction (philosophical, political, and eventually legal) between relatively clear crimes against property and bodies and crimes against (for want of a better term) individual psychological well - being.

As Strat wrote in that first editorial: «We have barely begun to count the cost of the assault on the child, in social let alone in psychological or spiritual terms.»

We can be so full of our own wisdom, that we forget that sex is a profound mystery to put it in theological terms, or to put it in humanistic language, it is an intricately complex mix of physiological, psychological and relational factors.

Holloway analyses the effects of that first sin from a theological, and what could be termed a psychological, perspective.

The term comes from the theory of women's psychological development and refers to how voice is formed and influenced by the «acoustics» of any given relationship.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

Moreover, by emphasizing the notion that personality was the sum total of its constitutive relationships and was subject to the interpersonal forces at work in a given field of energy, Sullivan was expressing in psychological terms the more complicated notions entailed in Whitehead's discussion of the extensive continuum.6

Whitehead did not focus to any great extent on the subject of psychology as such, but tended to discuss psychological topics more in terms of particular exemplifications of his larger schema.

Mintz does cite one study showing that «serious social, emotional or psychological problems» are 2.5 times more frequent in the long term among children of divorced parents, but the citation is buried in a footnote.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

She found that the term is extremely elusive and ambiguous in current psychological thought, but she was able to identify six major approaches by various schools of thought.

In 1905 Buber used the term «das Zwischenmenschliche» (a now familiar expression which he was the first to employ) as the social - psychological in general, «the life of men together in all its forms and actions,» «the social seen as a psychological process.»

He uses the term «response» as including genuine responsibility, listening as well as speaking, and an element of possible surprise — all in clear contrast to «the general interest in salesmanship, the worship of efficiency for its own sake,» and «the emphasis of psychological schools on stimuli, conditioned responses and the manipulation of emotions.»

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

While he looks askance at historical interpretation per se, he is completely impatient with «sociological» interpretation, dismissive of «psychological» interpretation, alert to what is «ideological» and utterly contemptuous of what he terms «modern «politically correct» formulation.»

They are more psychological than theological although those of us who are spiritual erotics will tend to fram our beliefs in theological terms.

Some behavior ~ istically oriented psychologists try to avoid the idea of freedom altogether, both by explaining psychic phenomena exclusively in physical and biological terms and by minimizing the role of theory construction in the process of psychological inquiry.

A priest whom Kennedy considers to be «fully developed» in psychological terms says that masturbation is not sinful, that he doesn't accept the «theory of mortal and venial sin», and that there is not much guilt or sinfulness associated with sexual misbehaviour.

It could be in terms of social harm or psychological harm.

The adult Christian, no matter what the degree of his psychological or spiritual maturity and commitment, needs education in terms of increased understanding and strengthened performatives at and beyond the level of language.

Hume's methodological commitment to the primacy of sensory experience led him to what we have come to term a «psychological atomism»; Russell's development of a logical empiricism led to a «logical atomism» (the only characterization of his overall views he was willing to accept; BR, p. 58).

In psychological terms, the creator senses disharmony at the inception of the creative process, if only in recognizing the need for something to be done.

If we wish to express freedom in the light of hope in appropriate psychological terms, it will be necessary to speak, with Kierkegaard again, of the passion for the possible, which retains in its formulation the mark of the future which the promise puts on freedom.

We have indicated under the figure of ecology in the world of nature the complex and intimate relationships operative in that process whereby Christian affirmations are made in terms integral with their status in the witnessing and remembering community, and also heard in terms which prevent their distortion into rationalistic, moralistic, naturalistic, or psychological categories.

The use of the term «disorder,» however, is simply inadequate, either as a general description of homosexuality or of particular gay and lesbian experiences in the United States today, without using some moral or psychological distinctions.

Now are we talking about the same thing when we speak of grace and forgiveness in Christian terms and acceptance in psychological terms?

The first is that a theological interpretation of man's existence is not an alternative to its analysis in economic, political and psychological terms.

But does acceptance in psychological terms require such a personal acknowledgment of guilt before God, or even guilt in relation to other persons?

In psychological terms his concept of faith means: if you completely submit, if you accept your individual insignificance, then the all - powerful God may be willing to love you and save you.

The psychological term for those who view the world in terms of speculatively threatening possibilities is paranoid.

People who continue to use these terms «hold that homosexual behavior is a manifestation of some inner essence, perhaps biological or psychological, is relatively stable over time, and characteristic of a distinct minority of the population.»

Our understanding the symbolic process in terms of the bipolar theory of perception avoids the one - sidedness of an exclusively psychological or subjectivist location of religious symbolism.

And I would suggest also that there is an imaginative component associated with employment of the term «chance» that explains its psychological attractiveness to its devotees in the spurious chance vs. design debate.