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Alienist

The term "Alienist" was heading for obsolescence until it was returned to a position of some prominence by the 1994 book "The Alienist" by the historian/novelist Caleb Carr.

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Alignment

Alignment refers to the way where family members join or oppose each other in dealing with events.

Alimony

Alimony refers to an allowance for support made under court order to a divorced person by the former spouse which is often the chief provider during the marriage.

Alkalosis

Alkalosis refers to an abnormal increase in blood concentration of OH-ions, resulting in a rise in arterial pH above 7.45. Alkalosis is also defined as an abnormally high level of alkaline in the body.

All-or-none law

Deutsch: Alles-oder-Nichts-Gesetz / Español: ley del todo o nada / Português: lei do tudo ou nada / Français: loi du tout ou rien / Italiano: legge del tutto o niente

All-or-none law refers to the principle stating that the size, amplitude, and velocity of the action potential are independent of the intensity of the stimulus that initiated it.

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All-or-Nothing (Faulty Heuristics)

- All-or-Nothing (Faulty Heuristics) : Englisch: Sports Psychology
Examples of Faulty Heuristics

All-or-Nothing refers to a faulty heuristics which means seeing only the extremes in a situation.

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All-or-nothing thinking

All-or-nothing thinking is classifying objects or events as absolutely right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, and so forth with nothing in between. All-or-nothing thinking is engaging in black-or-white thinking. Thinking in extremes, such as all good or all bad, with nothing in the middle.

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Allegiance effect

Allegiance effect refers to a characterization of psychotherapy outcome research such that investigators commonly find the most effective treatment is the one to which they hold a theoretical allegiance.

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