APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (ABA)
the practical application of Skinner's behavioral principles (i.e., operant conditioning) in practical settings. Variations of applied behavior analysis may be…
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
the application of linguistic methods to practical cases. Typical contexts for this concept include language teaching, the treatment of language…
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
the application of the theories, principles, and techniques of psychology to clinical settings, for example, the treatment of psychopathology, educational…
APPLIED RELAXATION
a technique in which anxious clients are taught, in a stepwise fashion, to relax more rapidly over a series of…
APPLIED RESEARCH
research aimed toward answering a practical question, for example, a clinical question, rather than developing a theory or obtaining knowledge…
APPLIED SCIENCE
an approach to science in which scientific principles and theories are applied in practical ways, for example, in the development…
APPLIED SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
the study of sport psychology in a research setting with the aim of enhancing or making consistent the performance of…
APPLIED TENSION
a technique often used in behavior therapy and exposure therapy that focuses on modifying physiological responses (e.g., low blood pressure)…
APPRAISAL DIMENSION
any aspect of the criteria that account for a person's evaluation of an interaction with the environment and the generation…
APPRAISAL MOTIVE
the desire to gain accurate, objective information about the self leads people to seek highly diagnostic feedback (see diagnosticity). It…
APPRAISAL THEORY
an overarching name for a group of theories, stating that people's cognitive appraisals or evaluations of a situation determine the…
APPREHENSION
n. anxious expectation, worry, general uneasiness, or dread about a situation, event, or the future in general.
APPREHENSION SPAN
the number of items an individual can verbally report following a single glance at an array of items. Typically, the…
APPREHENSION-SPAN TEST
a test in which participants report an experience of briefly presented items (e.g., letters or objects). The whole report task…
APPREHENSIVENESS
1. a mood state characterized by anxiety or worry. 2. the act or capability of humans to grasp something mentally,…
APPROACH CONTROL TEST
a test for simulation and assessment of air traffic control, and the human factors involved. It assesses the relative influence…
APPROACH GRADIENT
the variation in the strength of an organism's drive as a function of the overall proximity to the goal. For…