Tavistock Clinic

a major British provider of clinical mental health services, set up in Tavistock Square, London, in 1919. It became a part of the National Health Service in 1947, when the separate Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was founded to relate the psychological and social sciences to the needs of society. In 1994, the Tavistock Clinic and the Portman Clinic became a trust of the National Health Service and its leading organization for providing postgraduate training in mental health.

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Psychology term of the day

October 9th 2024

behavior coding

a method of recording observations in which defined labels are used by specially trained individuals to denote specific qualities and characteristics of behaviors as they are witnessed. For example, a developmental researcher might use the following coding scheme for infant vocalizations: (a) vowels; (b) syllables (i.e., consonant–vowel transitions); (c) babbling (a sequence of repeated syllables); and (d) other (e.g., crying, laughing, vegetative sounds such as cooing). Behavior coding systems typically are specific to a given study and the behaviors under investigation.