BASES OF AN ATTITUDE
n. typical sources from which information is derived and an attitude is based. Research reveals that there are three bases…
BASIC ACHIEVEMENT SKILLS INDIVIDUAL SCREENER (BASIS)
n. a test designed to measure academic achievement and determine grade-level placement (1983). As to reading, the results are norm-…
BASIC ANXIETY
n. in the study of ego, a feeling of being deeply insecure, helpless, and isolated. There is fear of being…
BASIC CONFLICT
n. in the study of ego, the conflict which arises between a person's dominant tendency towards a neurotic trend and…
BASIC ENCOUNTER
n. a meaningful experience characterized by trust and empathy on a mutual level. When a person relates to another positively…
BASIC HOSTILITY
n. a hostile pattern which is characterized as a bad attitude. Having developed from basic anxiety, it makes the infant…
BASIC MISTAKE
n. in psychology, a factor attributed to Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler. One that arises during early childhood, it is a…
BASIC MISTRUST
n. in Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development, the first stage reached without successful resolution. Thus, self-esteem and normal relatedness…
BASIC NORDIC SLEEP QUESTIONNAIRE (BNSQ)
n. in questionnaire form, this standardized test applies a five-point quantitative scale. Designed to measure sleep disturbance, it measures the…
BASIC PERSONALITY
n. a pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving which is distinct among people raised within a similar culture. These similarities…
BASIC PHYSIOLOGICAL NEED
n. the most fundamental of needs, this is the lowest level in Maslow's hierachy of needs. Motivated by a basic…
BASIC REFLEXES
n. first and foremost, they are inherent sensorimotor responses to stimuli. Among the earliest to manifest, these are involuntary and…
BASIC RESEARCH
n. a research study done purely for science and knowledge without necessarily being directed at a goal or attempting to…
BASIC REST-ACTIVITY CYCLE (BRAC)
n. a biological cycle which alternates between periods of wakefulness and sleep - or in other words, activity and non-activity.…
BASIC RULE
n. in psychoanalysis, the fundamental rule of all which talks about spontaneity. In order to gather the most valid thoughts,…
BASIC SKILLS
n. a back-to-the-basics approach to education wherein emphasis is given to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Proficiency in these skills leads…
BASIC TECHNIQUE (BT)
n. in parapsychology, refers to the use of Zener cards as a method to detect precognition. This cognitive ability is…
BASIC-LEVEL CATEGORY
n. in cognitive psychology, a category for which the most-frequently applied term is among the earliest learned and the most…
BASIC-SKILLS TESTING
n. an assessment of fundamental skills appropriate to the task at hand. It examines an individual's ability to understand basic…
BASILAR ARTERY
n. in anatomy, one of the arteries which supply the brain with oxygenated blood. At the junction where the two…