A slip of the tongue, which FREUD, who denied the existence of randomness or accident in the way a person behaves, interpreted as a clue from the UNCONSCIOUS about a REPRESSED conflict.

See also PARAPRAXIS.

See CRITICAL FLICKER FREQUENCY.

See EPILEPSY.

A constant rate of change between two conditions or VARIABLES.

In EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, the weakening of a CONDITIONED RESPONSE. This is accomplished either by presenting the CONDITIONED STIMULUS without the UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS, or by withholding REINFORCEMENT from the conditioned response.

The use of handwriting as a kind of PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE where a person’s handwriting is analysed for whatever it may reveal about his or her PERSONALITY.

More recent term for INSTINCT.

Aroused when a person feels pressured to achieve, and particularly prevalent in people with a high NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT.

According to the American sociologist G.H. Mead, the concept an individual has of how other people expect him or her to behave in a given situation.

Compare with SIGNIFICANT OTHER.

Having a memory of something that didn’t actually happen.