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Task Leadership:
Goal oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work and focuses attention on goals.
Telegraphic Speech:
Early speech stage in which the child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting auxiliary words.
Temperament:
A persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
Temporal Lobes:
The portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears; including the auditory areas which receives information from the opposite ear.
Teratogens:
Chemical and viral agents that can reach a fetus or embryo during prenatal development and cause harm.
Testosterone:
Most important of the male sex hormones- males and females have it. Contributes to the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and during puberty.
Thalamus:
The brains sensory switchboard, located atop the brainstem; it directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla.
THC:
The major active ingredient in marijuana- triggers mild hallucinations.
Thematic Apperception Test:
A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up from pictures.
Theory:
An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations.
Theory Of Mind:
Peoples ideas about their own and others mental states.
Theory X:
Assumes that workers need to be directed from above because they are lazy, extrinsically motivated and error prone.
Theory Y:
Assumes that workers are motivated to achieve self esteem and express creativity if they are challenged and have freedom.
Threshold:
The level of stimulation used to trigger a neural impulse.
Token Economy:
An operant conditioning behavior that rewards positive behavior.
Tolerance:
The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger doses to achieve the same effect.
Top Down Processing:
Information processing guided by higher level mental processes, as we construct perceptions drawing on our experience.
Trait:
A characteristic pattern of behavior as assessed by self-reporting inventories and peer reports.
Transduction:
Transforming of stimulus energies to neural impulses.
Transference:
The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked to other relationships.
Two Factor Theory:
Schacters theory: to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the emotion.
Two Word Stage:
Beginning at age 2, when a child speaks in mostly 2 word statements.
Type A:
Friedman and Rossman’s term for competitive, hard driving personalities.
Type B:
Easygoing, relaxed people.