Category: C

Treatment for homosexuals who want to become heterosexuals. Research shows such initiatives are not very successful.  

Changing intense anxiety into bodily functional symptoms. A type of neurosis in which loss or alteration of physical functioning suggests a physical disorder but instead expresses a psychological conflict or need. The disturbance is not under voluntary control and cannot be explained by a disease process; it is not limited to pain or sexual dysfunction.…

A feature or clause of an insurance plan that allows an insured to change from one type of policy to another as circumstances in life or insurance needs change. In group health insurance, the right given the insured to change his group insurance to some form of individual insurance, without medical examination, upon termination of…

A description of identical results from more than a single method of inquiring into the same research question, replicability; validity.  

Thinking that is directed at producing a single, correct answer to a problem, divergent thinking.  

A person who tends to respond to questions in a predictable and conventional way convergent thinker.  

Learning in which there is only one answer to be learned.  

The independent development of similar structures in forms of life that are unrelated or only distantly related.  

The movement of the eyes as they rotate toward each other to focus upon an object. Medical procedure testing the ability of both eyes to turn medially by holding up an index finger and moving it progressively closer to the patient’s nose to test the function of the medial rectus muscles; maximum convergence is called…

Kohlberg’s second level of development of moral reasoning in which judgments are based on doing the right thing as prescribed by social convention.