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Anecdotal Evidence Anecdotal Evidence is information you obtain from a subjective report, an observation, or some kind of example that may or …

Androgyny Someone who is androgynous has both male and female traits. This is not to say that the person has male and …

Androgen Androgens are the hormones that control sexual development. They can be naturally produced by the body or synthetically produced. Among their …

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Analysis of variance is a statistical test to determine if all sample groups in a study are affected …

Anal-Retentive (anal stage of motivational development) The anal stage of motivational development is characterized by the child’s central area of bodily concern …

Anal-Expulsive Freudʼs psychosexual theory of development has several stages and lots of elements within those stages. The term anal-expulsive refers to a …

Anal Stage The anal stage is one of the stages in Freudʼs psychosexual theory of development, which occurs in the second year …

Anal Character This term is an extension of Freudʼs anal stage of development (you remember Freudʼs stages of development, right?) in which …

Anaclitic Depression This is a type of depression that occurs primarily in infants who have been separated from or lost their mothers …

Amygdala No, this is not pronounced “ah-mig-DAH-la”, but rather, “ah-MIG-dah-la” (don’t ask me why I felt compelled to include the pronunciation!). The …