ACATHISIA (AKATHISIA, AKATIZIA)
While this term literally means “not sitting,” and was originally applied to an impaired ability to sit down or sit…
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
Tests designed to measure knowledge or skill attained through training in a specific subject or area. Achievement tests are usually…
ABECEDARIAN PROJECT
a 1970's project managed by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that monitored the social and academic processes of…
ABNEY'S EFFECT
a lighting effect demonstrated by the addition to and removal of light from an area displayed by the appearance of…
ABSENCE SEIZURE
brief seizes that are not usually recalled by the victim- usually lasting five to fifteen seconds- renders the victim limp…
ABSORPTION CURVE
a graph which charts data regarding the degree of intensity to which varying light waves are absorbed or cast onward…
ABULIA (ABOULIA)
lacking ambition to pursue goals or aim for set intentions. Commonly seen in persons with neurological damage or disorders.
ACADEMIC PROBLEM
1. learning inhibitors commonly seen in younger children that do not hold the capacity to complete work on an academic…
ACCENTUATION THEORY
Henri Tajfel's concept that points out a tendency to over-emphasize the differences between things belonging to different categories, and likewise,…
ACCIDENTAL GROUP
an arrangement of people who have continually stumbled upon one another enough to which they slowly end up grouped together…
ACCUSATIVE
in regards to language, the instance of a noun, pronoun, or sentence that develops the direct object of a clause…
ACHIEVEMENT DRIVE
noun. A powerful drive to complete a task to the best of one's abilities and, frequently, to become acknowledged as…
ACID FLASHBACK
an encounter documented through quite a few users of L.S.D. in which a few parts of the encounter seen to…
ACOUSTIC RESONANCE
an alternation in the actual reflex behavior of an acoustic system that is entirely dependent upon change within itself. The…
ACQUISITION
noun. 1. the additive of a new kind of conduct, reply, data, or concept to a person's personality style or…
ACTION THEORY
all studies, jointly, which have for their design oftentimes automatic human beings (for example, able to look at their selves…
ACTIVE CONCRETIZATION
in regards to schizophrenia, the undertaking of changing abstract notions directly into definite delineations or models. For instance, a person…
ACTIVE TRANSPORT
the motion of ions or compounds all over a cell membrane layer by a tool which demands energy. The motion…