ABILITY GROUPING
1. categorization within learning environments that divides individuals based on their individual aptitudes and groups them together with like persons.
A-BETA FIBER
transmitters that quickly convey data from skin-based receptors to the central nervous system- myleinated fibers, largest in size of all…
ABERRATION
noun. 1. a departure from one's average behavior. 2. in regard to eyesight, when beams of light do not correctly…
ABERRANT RESPONSE
most notably identified for treatment purposes during psychotherapy and interventions- a behavior that is out of character
ABECEDARIAN PROJECT
a 1970's project managed by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that monitored the social and academic processes of…
ABDUCENS NUCLEUS
starting point of the abducens nerve- a compilation of nerve cells in the base of the 4th ventricle in the…
ABDUCENS NERVE
commonly referred to as the cranial nerve VI, this nerve houses small threads that obtain control over the lateral rectus…
ABDOMINAL MIGRAINE
common in kids, repeating discomfort in the abdomen- queasiness and vomiting may or may not occur concurrently with abdominal migraine-…
A-B DESIGN
a setup for experiments requiring the measurement of the dependent variable prior to onset of the experiment and again after…
A PRIORI TEST
the testing of an experiment's hypotheses prior to the actual performance of said experiment.
ABC THEORY
a theory based on the RET approach developed in 1955 by Albert Ellis, proposing that Activating events are not the…