Basic Anxiety
In Harvey’s theory the feeling of a child being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world.
In Harvey’s theory the feeling of a child being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world.
Similar to Lewin’s concept of life space, a totality of factors that affect the behaviour of a given individual.
A system of psychology founded by Watson and which emphasizes that all psychological functions can be explained in terms of stimulus and response.
Hierarchy of learned expectations concerning the different objects and their role in relation to behaviour.
A branch of psychology that concerns with how biological processes affect important behaviour and cognitions.
A concept propounded by Otto Rank that emphasizes the emotional experience of the new born ending its prenatal life.
A ratio that emphasizes the relationship between real or physical to sensory representations of an object, indicating the extent to which physical attributes determine any given perception.
A hypothesis which emphasizes that a complex perception is a group of simple perceptions.