Sociometric Technique: Methods for quantitatively assessing and measuring interpersonal and group relationships.

Synonym: sociometric technic.

Terms Related to Sociometric Technique:

• Encounter Group

  A group of people who meet in an unstructured setting to learn about themselves, interpersonal relationships, and group processes and about larger social systems.

• Dilution Technique

  Methods for assessing flow through a system by injection of a known quantity of an indicator, such as a dye, radionuclide, or chilled liquid, into ...

• Histocytological Preparation Technique

  Methods of preparing cells or tissues for examination and study of their origin, structure, function, or pathology. The methods include preservation, fixation, sectioning, staining, replica, ...

• Abbreviated Injury Scale

  Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine. It is the system of choice for coding ...

• Authoritarianism

  The personality pattern or syndrome consisting of behavioral and attitudinal characteristics reflecting a preoccupation with the factors of power and authority in interpersonal relationships.

• Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique

  Technique that utilizes low-stringency polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification with single primers of arbitrary sequence to generate strain-specific arrays of anonymous DNA fragments. RAPD technique ...

• Socioenvironmental Therapy

  Therapy whose primary emphasis is on the physical and social structuring of the environment to promote interpersonal relationships which will be influential in reducing behavioral ...

• Hysterical Personality

  A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.

• Group Structure

  The informal or formal organization of a group of people based on a network of personal relationships which is influenced by the size and composition, ...

• Patch-Clamp Technique

  An electrophysiologic technique for studying cells, cell membranes, and occasionally isolated organelles. All patch-clamp methods rely on a very high-resistance seal between a micropipette and ...