AER HUNGER
Our breathing is so regular and automatic that we usually take it for granted. Yet the effects of deprivation are…
ALCOHOLIC ADDICTION
Chronic dependence on the use of alcoholic beverages. In 1949 a committee of the World Health Organization defined alcoholics as…
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
the rights held by students and faculty within higher learning facilities to express themselves and their opinions wholly, without judgment…
ACCELERATION
noun. 1. a rise in the rate at which something/someone moves. 2. in regards to arithmetic, the speed at with…
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
the procedure followed to ascertain how an accident occurred in keeping with a plan to aid in prevention of such…
ACHEIRIA (ACHIRIA)
being born having just one hand or neither hand. 2. a state of illness in which one lacks the ability…
ACHROMATIC
1. lacking color- colorless agents of black, white and gray. 2. retaining the ability to bend light while keeping it…
ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS
acoustic or even sound-multiplying properties of a physical atmosphere. Just as imperative as the volume of sound is the time…
ACQUIRED COLOR BLINDNESS
faulty chromatic eyesight that evolves inside an individual with prior normal eyesight and no reported problems. These kinds of colorblindness…
ACROPARESTHESIA
noun. Feelings of pins and needles or other irregular feelings in the arms and legs. Types include: Nothnagel's acroparesthesia and…
ACTION POTENTIAL (AP)
the update in electric probability that circulates ahead in a cell during the course of the transmission of a nerve…
ACTIVATION-ELABORATION
a joint-process theory of memory supporting the idea that information kept in memory will fluctuate in amounts of both activation…
ACTIVE PLACEBO
a stimulus utilized in double-blind controlled studies of pharmacologic commodities which have zero healing properties, however contrary to a considerably…
ACTIVITY RECORD
compiled or documented information accounting a pupil's participation in events, sports, or other projects lying outside the daily structure of…
ACTUARIAL RISK ASSESSMENT
a mathematically measured prediction of the potential of a person who will present a danger to other people or have…
ACUTE CONFUSIONAL STATE
serious bafflement that may consist of signs of frustration, random access memory disruption, confusion, and craze. It usually takes place…
AD HOC CATEGORY
a classification created to satisfy a particular qualification or need, typically in the second it is required. For instance, one…
ADAPTATIONAL PSYCHODYNAMICS,
developed by Hungarian-born U.S. psychoanalyst Sandor Rado, one of the child ego stages in transactional analysis, where children exhibit conformity,…