BOOTSTRAPPING
n. in linguistics, refers to a child's ability to acquire more knowledge and apply more complex rules after accomplishing the…
BORDERLINE
adj. denoting anything which is difficult to place in one definite category. It can belong to any of two classes…
BORDERLINE DISORDER
n. any personality showing borderline characteristics. Also, any psychological condition contrasted with normality (e.g. between normality and psychosis, between normal…
BORDERLINE INTELLIGENCE
n. intellectual performance between the average and sub-average categories. Research results of some identify it somewhere between 66-79, although most…
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
n. in DSM-IV-TR, refers to a chronic pattern of personality instability. More of a disorder than not, it manifests through…
BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA
n. historically, refers to a condition wherein the patient is mostly in-touch with reality, yet inconsistently shows symptoms of schizophrenia…
BORDERLINE STATE
n. a condition wherein early symptoms of a disorder are present but difficult as of yet to classify. In borderline…
BORG SCALE
n. a set of two scales used to measure intensity of training and exertion during exercise. On one hand, the…
BORING, EDWIN GARRIGUES
(1886-1968) an American psychologist best- known for his contribution to experimental psychology. Back in 1904, he attended Cornell University and…
BORJESON-FORSSMAN-LEHMANN SYNDROME
n. an X-linked disorder in which mental retardation is severe to profound. It is characterized by short stature, microcephaly, and…
BORNA DISEASE
n. a viral disease observed in mammals, particularly in horses. The virus is contagious to humans, and the infection can…
BORSTAL SYSTEM
m. a method formerly used to rehabilitate young offenders between the ages of 16 to 21. To reform these delinguent…
BOSTON NAMING TEST (BNT)
n. a test in word retrieval designed for patients experiencing language disturbance such as those caused by dementia, stroke, and…
BOTTLE BABY
sl. Slang term which refers to a child born to a mother addicted on crack (crack cocaine) while pregnant. This…
BOTTLENECK MODEL
n. in psychology, refers to a model based on any of the three bottleneck theories used for gauging attention. For…
BOTTOMING OUT
n. a state of hopelessness and despair in which self-esteem and self-image are at their lowest. This comes as a…
BOTTOM-UP ANALYSIS
n. problem-solving as approached through inductive reasoning. The technique is to analyze the problem starting from existing data and evidence…
BOTTOM-UP DESIGN
n. an approach to system or product design using bottom-up analysis. Largely based on inductive reasoning, it first identifies basic…
BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING
n. information processing which starts with the initial data before it proceeds to higher-level processes. When the first stage is…