TASK-ORIENTED GROUP
a group with the task of solving a problem, creating a product and providing a service. See action group; work…
TASTE BLINDNESS
a reduction in sensitivity to bitter tastes as a result of having less taste buds. The inability of a person…
TASTE PORE
the opening on each taste bud where taste cells sample the environment. The pores located at the taste buds to…
TASTE TRANSDUCTION
The sequence of events that converts chemical signals into taste sensations. As you take something in your mouth, the sensory…
TAVISTOCK CLINIC
major provider of mental health services in the UK and is now part of the National Health Service. This center…
TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
the hierarchy of the levels of cognitive performance including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. To set up the…
TAYLOR MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE
a self-reporting scale with 65 items developed in 1951. people respond true or false to the statements. This scale was…
TEACHING GAMES
a form of instruction that takes place as games to engage a student's interest. Such instructions are given to students…
TEACHING MACHINE
an instrument that presents programmed material to a learner; provides opportunity to check the understanding of problems and questions; gives…
TEAM BUILDING
the structured intervention that is designed to increase the extent that a group works as a team. To gather the…
TEAM GOALS
1. Goals that have been set for a team. 2. The goal set by a coach for the team. These…
Counseling Children and Adolescents on Death
Research suggests that bereaved children are a vulnerable population, at increased risk for social impairment and psychopathology (Baker, Sedney, &…
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PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE
anxiety felt by someone who is nearing release from an institutional facility and re-emergence into the tangible daily world.
PRESBYOPIA
noun. an average, age-associated alteration in vision because of reduced lens elasticity and accommodative capacity, ending in lessened capacity to…
PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
an educational strategy or map for kids who are beneath the necessary minimum age for engagement in typical classroom work.