IRRADIATION
1. A type of radiation therapy in which the body is exposed to radiation. 2. outward diffusion of energy. 3.…
INTERLOCKING REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE
schedule of reinforcement that is intermittent and needs one schedule to change in accordance with another schedule.
ISOLATING LANGUAGE
It is a language in which each morpheme is typically a separate word. Compare aggluti-native language.
ISOLATION EXPERIMENT
Removing an animal from social contact with other members of its species so that it can be observed.
IRIDOCYCLITIS
A noun meaning inflammation of the iris and ciliary body of the eye. Heterochromic is a form of disorder that…
INTERMODAL MATCHING
the name for the ability to recognise an object initially inspected with one modality or sense like touch and via…
ITEM RESPONSE THEORY (IRT)
a probability theory of measurement stating that the correct answer to an item is a function of an underlying trait…
ISOTONIC CONTROL
A controlling gadget, such as a button or switch, that is activated by displacement of the control from a neutral…
ISOMERIZATION
a switch in the structural order of a molecule without whatever change in its constituent atoms.
ISOTONIC CONTRACTION
is a type of muscle contraction in which the muscle shortens and thickens like when a person flexes the biceps…
ITEM-TO-ITEM RELIABILITY
the response correlation to one particular item in a test or subtest with resonses to another particular item in that…
ISCHEMIC PENUMBRA
a zone of relatively average damage to the tissues caused by inadequate blood supply. Tissues in the penumbra may be…
JACKSONIAN MARCH
An older name for clonic motor movements in one region or side of the body that start in one muscle…
ISOMORPHISM
1. In cognition, the relationship between a perceived stimulus and the resulting verbal process as in pronunciation of a printed…
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
JAPANESE MANAGEMENT
management style in Japan in the 1980s stressing continuous improvement in quality, cnsensus decision making and acute inventory systems