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