Nativism
A doctrine that emphasizes upon the role of hereditary factor rather than upon environmental factor in development of behaviour.
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Naturalism
The view that natural phenomena can be wholly interpreted by principles found by the studies of those natural phenomena without the help of any other external theories.
Naturalistic observation
Observation or study of the phenomena made in its natural state independent of any external or experimental inteference.
Nature-Nurture Controversy
A debate concerning the extent to which various aspects of behaviour are determined by genetic factors (nature) or environmental or experimental factors (nurture).
Neo-Freudians
A group of theorists who accepted basic portions of Freud’s theory that rejected or modified some other portions.
Neobehaviourism
New version of early Watsonian behaviourism.
Neurotic trend
A concept enunciated by Horney in which the person adopts a particular approach in an attempt to avoid conflict and find security. Nonsense Syllable: A meaningless item of three letters of which two consonants are separated by a vowel so…