Category: I
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Intersex
An organism that displays phenotypic characteristics more-or-less intermediate between male and female. An organism that has both male and female characteristics. Person who has the characteristics of both sexes or who has external genitalia that are ambiguous or not appropriate to the normal male or female. An individual who shows anatomical characteristics of both sexes.…
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Intersensory knowledge
The ability to predict how one sense will interpret an object or event after experiencing it with another sense. For example, if we smell a new food, we can predict whether or not we will like its taste.
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Interpretive level of health
Characterized by a person’s need to establish feelings of self-worth, to interact socially, and to behave in ways that result in personal satisfaction, growth, and actualization.
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Interposition
A secondary cue to depth in which an object whose outline interrupts that of a second object is seen as nearer than the latter object.
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Interpersonal therapy
Treatment that concentrates upon a person’s marital and family problems that may contribute to the emotional or other mental health problems. Used frequently to treat alcoholism interpersonal psychotherapy. Short-term form of psychotherapy for depression that focuses on the patient’s disturbed personal relationships that both cause and exacerbate the depression. Short term usually involves up to…
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Interpersonal sexuality
Mutual emotional and physical sexual relationships between people, intrapersonal sexuality. The sex drive within each person as manifested in sexual fantasies and masturbation interpersonal sexuality.
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Interpersonal factors
Any event, element, individual, or group that influences positively or negatively the quality of relationships between individuals or groups.
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Interpersonal awareness
A dimension of recognition of the attributes of persons and social interactions assumed to be reflected in developing ideas about friendship, role-taking, peer interactions, and other social processes.
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Interoceptive conditioning
Classical conditioning in which some important component is inside the body.
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Interobserver reliability
In epidemiology, the degree to which two or more observers classify consistently among themselves the same observation on a group of subjects being studied.