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(Latest | Earliest) View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 17:08, November 24, 2009 Clinical psychology with deaf people (hist) [146 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} ==See also== *Deafness *Deaf culture *Working with interpreters Category:Deafness Category:Deaf culture')
- 16:51, November 24, 2009 Polari (hist) [19,816 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}} '''Polari''' (or alternatively '''Parlare''', '''Parlary''', '''Palare''', '''Palarie''', '''Palari''', '''Parlyaree''',<ref>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.a…')
- 16:47, November 24, 2009 Secret language (hist) [25,097 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}} a secret language is a language used only by members of a group, often used to conceal the meaning from those outside the group. A '''language game''' (also …')
- 16:44, November 24, 2009 Cant (language) (hist) [5,504 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}}')
- 09:00, November 24, 2009 Perceptual motor development (hist) [228 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{DevPsy}} '''Perceptual motor development''' is the growing ability of the young to integrate their perception and motor processes to achieve [[perceptual motor cordinat…')
- 09:00, November 24, 2009 Psychomotor vigilance task (hist) [961 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} The '''Psychomotor Vigilance Task'''<ref>1</ref> (hereafter ‘PVT’) is a chronometric measure of an individual’s readiness to detect and respond to certain specif…')
- 08:50, November 24, 2009 Physical dexterity (hist) [408 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} Physical dexterity is the ability to perform closely controlled and purposeful physical movements. This in part requires perceptual motor coordination for tasks re…')
- 08:43, November 24, 2009 Perceptual motor coordination (hist) [588 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Cogpsy}} {{Expert}} '''Perceptual motor coordination''' is the integration of perception, usually visual perception and motor processes in tasks such as [[hand-eye …')
- 08:15, November 24, 2009 Perceptual motor processes (hist) [673 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} {{expert}} '''Perceptual motor processes''' are the means by which perception, usually visual perception is related to motor processes to provide guided [[…')
- 08:35, November 23, 2009 Ho'oponopono (hist) [14,614 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{SocPsy}} '''Ho{{okina}}oponopono''' (ho-o-pono-pono) is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness. Similar forgiveness practices were performed on islands …')
- 10:14, November 21, 2009 Metropolitan Readiness Tests (hist) [137 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{AssesPsy}} The '''Metropolitan Readiness Tests''' are reading measures of reading readiness. Category:Reading measures')
- 09:55, November 21, 2009 Nonmetallic elements (hist) [3,982 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{BioPsy}} '''Nonmetal''', or '''non-metal''', is a term used in chemistry when classifying the chemical elements. On the basis of their general physical and chemical pro…')
- 01:45, November 21, 2009 Number comprehension (hist) [310 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} {{Maths}} '''Number comprehension''' is the ability to process numbers, to understand their meaning and the relationships they have to one another. ==Assessment==…')
- 01:13, November 21, 2009 Responsibility assumption (hist) [5,349 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} '''Responsibility assumption''' is a doctrine in the personal growth field holding that each individual has substantial or total [[Moral responsibility|responsibi…')
- 00:57, November 21, 2009 Nonprofessional personnel (hist) [398 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{OrgPsy}} '''Nonprofessional personnel''' comprise a number of groups of personnel studied by psychologists including: *Agricultural workers *[[Business and industrial …')
- 17:13, November 20, 2009 Tact (verbal behavior) (hist) [3,775 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}} '''Tact''' is a term that B.F. Skinner used to describe a verbal operant in which a response of given form is evoked (or at least strengthened) by a particular ob…')
- 16:55, November 20, 2009 Age segregation in schools (hist) [877 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{EdPsy}} '''Age segregation in schools''', '''age grading''', or '''graded education''' is the separation of students into years of education (grades, [[form (education)…')
- 16:53, November 20, 2009 Nongrade schools (hist) [417 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{EdPsy}} '''Nongrade schools''' is a US term applied to schools that select and/or organise students by factors other than age or grade level. They may use such characterist…')
- 10:20, November 20, 2009 Mental health services (hist) [1,099 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} '''Mental health services''' are an aspect of health care services and are services developed to facilitate the maintenance of mental health and the treatment…')
- 09:39, November 20, 2009 Magnesium ions (hist) [5,307 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{BioPsy}} {{Main|Magnesium}} '''Magnesium ions''' have important biological roles. ==Magnesium transport== {{main|Magnesium transport}} The chemical and biochemical properti…')
- 09:10, November 20, 2009 Maintenance therapy (hist) [1,073 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} '''Maintenance therapy''' is a medical therapy that is designed to help a primary treatment succeed.<ref>[http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4…')
- 09:05, November 20, 2009 Treatment duration (hist) [1,003 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} '''Treatment duration''' has been studied extensively over the years and recent efforts to make psychotherapy more efficient and cost effective have increased thi…')
- 18:30, November 19, 2009 Hypermobility (travel) (hist) [3,005 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{SpecsPsy}} '''Hypermobility''' is a term coined by Professor John Adams of University College London, to describe the societal changes that hav…')
- 18:29, November 19, 2009 Traveling (hist) [1,918 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{SpecsPsy}} '''Traveling''' or '''Travel''' is the change in location of people on a trip through the means of transport from one location to another. Travel is most common…')
- 18:11, November 19, 2009 Treatment witholding (hist) [1,069 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} '''Treatment witholding''' occurs after the proper assessment of either a mental or physical disorder and the clinican decides not to provide…')
- 17:27, November 19, 2009 Phonotactics (hist) [4,499 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}} '''Phonotactics''' (in Greek ''phone'' = voice and ''tactic'' = course) is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language…')
- 17:25, November 19, 2009 Lexical gap (hist) [2,879 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}} A '''lexical gap''' or '''lacuna''' is an absence of a word in a particular language. Several types of lexical gaps are possible, such as untranslatability, m…')
- 17:24, November 19, 2009 Logatome (hist) [835 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{LangPsy}} A '''logatome''' is an artificial word of only one or just some syllables which obeys all the phonotactic rules of a language, but still does not…')
- 17:22, November 19, 2009 Nonsense syllable learning (hist) [314 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} '''Nonsense syllable learning''' is an experimental paradigm in which letters are conbined into "words" that have no meaning and used as stimuli in verbal learning…')
- 17:10, November 19, 2009 Mathematical principles of reinforcement (hist) [15,072 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} '''Mathematical principles of reinforcement''' (MPR) are a set of mathematical equations that describe and predict the most fundamental aspects of behavior. The th…')
- 08:28, November 19, 2009 Place conditioning (hist) [1,512 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} '''Place conditioning''' '''Conditioned place preference''' (also known as '''environmental place conditioning''') is a technique commonly used in [[animal studies…')
- 08:15, November 19, 2009 Emulation (observational learning) (hist) [5,942 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} In '''emulation''' learning, subjects learn about parts of their environment and use this to achieve their own goals. First coined by child psychologist [[David Wood]…')
- 07:36, November 19, 2009 Maze pathways (hist) [198 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Cogpsy}} The configuration of maze pathways can be an important variable in maze learning studies and some thought needs to be given to the choice of maze to be used. …')
- 07:31, November 19, 2009 Immunoassay (hist) [4,641 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{BioPsy}} An '''immunoassay''' is a biochemical test that measures the concentration of a substance in a biological liquid, typically serum or urine…')
- 07:25, November 19, 2009 Immunoreactivity (hist) [369 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{BioPsy}} '''Immunoreactivity''' is the process in which an antigen and an antibody interact. Psychologists and others have studied these reactions to help understand the mechan…')
- 12:12, November 18, 2009 Broadbent's filter theory of selective attention and short term memory (hist) [2,593 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} Broadbent's theories of selective attention and short-term memory were developed as digital computers were beginning to become available to the academic co…')
- 12:09, November 18, 2009 Models of short-term memory (hist) [237 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Cog Psy}} There are a number of models of short term memory that have been proposed.: *Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model *[[Broadbent,s model of selective attention and …')
- 12:05, November 18, 2009 Metastability in the brain (hist) [23,683 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{BioPsy}} In the field of computational neuroscience, the theory of '''metastability''' refers to the human brain’s ability to integrate several functional…')
- 12:01, November 18, 2009 Endocytosis (hist) [18,847 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{BioPsy}} '''Endocytosis''' is the process by which cells absorb molecules (such as proteins) from outside the cell by engulfing it with their [[cell memb…')
- 11:55, November 18, 2009 The neurochemistry of short-term memory (hist) [1,019 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'It is proposed that short term memory is prolonged firing of neurons which depletes the Readily Releasable Pool (RRP) of neurotransmitter vesicles at presynaptic terminals<ref>Ta…')
- 18:43, November 17, 2009 Shopping centers (hist) [2,747 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{SpecsPsy}} The [[Toronto Eaton Centre, in downtown Toronto, is one of the largest …')
- 18:38, November 17, 2009 Shopping (hist) [10,072 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{SpecsPsy}} {{PsyPerspective}} A market in Jerusalem '''Shopping''' is an aspect of [[con…')
- 18:16, November 17, 2009 Bipolar disorder - Assessment tools (hist) [207 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} The following clinical psychology measures have been used to assess bipolar disorder *Internal State Scale Category:Clinical assessment measures …')
- 18:00, November 17, 2009 OCD - Assessment (hist) [214 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} *OCD:Assessment tools Category:Clinical assessment Category:OCD')
- 17:23, November 17, 2009 Panic disorder: Assessment tools (hist) [149 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{ClinPsy}} Panic Rating Scale ==See also== *Agrophobia: Assessment tools Category:Clinical assessment measures Category:Panic')
- 10:05, November 17, 2009 UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (hist) [1,138 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Clinpsy}} The UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey is an ongoing series of epidemiological studies aimed at monitoring trends in United Kingdom’s mental health. Surveys hav…')
- 23:52, November 16, 2009 Skill learning (hist) [409 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} '''Skill learning''' is the process of acquiring skills. ==Gross motor skill learning== ==Fine motor skill learning== ==See also== *[[Athletic trainin…')
- 17:35, November 16, 2009 Responses (hist) [299 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} {{Response}} '''Responses''' are the behaviors and reactions elicited by a stimulus ==See also== *stimulus-response model Category:Responses')
- 17:28, November 16, 2009 Response parameters (hist) [174 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{CogPsy}} {{Responses}}')
- 17:08, November 16, 2009 Moral luck (hist) [9,730 bytes] Dr Joe Kiff (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{PhilPsy}} '''Moral luck''' is a phenomenon whereby a moral agent is assigned moral blame or praise for an action or its consequences even though it is clear that said agent…')
