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model psychosis

psychotic symptoms (e.g., delusions, hallucinations, disorientation, disorganized speech) deliberately produced by a psychotomimetic drug, such as LSD, for purposes of research. This technique was particularly popular during the 1950s and 1960s.

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behavior mapping

behavior mapping

a technique of studying the activities of individuals within a space by noting what happens where. The degree of variability of behavior, as well as its association with certain types of environmental features, is a useful starting point to build or test hypotheses about, for example, architectural design. See also architectural programming.