ARMED SERVICES VOCATIONAL APTITUDE BATTERY (ASVAB)
a test battery developed in 1966 by the Department of Defense for use by the U.S. military as a standardized…
AROUSAL SYSTEM
a diffuse system of nerve cells that controls arousal by activating both the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous…
ART THERAPY
the use of artistic activities, such as painting, jewelry making and clay modeling, in psychotherapy and sometimes in rehabilitation. The…
ARTICULATION INDEX
an index used to measure speech intelligibility within a given operational environment. It reflects and measures the degree of separation…
ARTIFICIALISM
the assumption that anything that exists must have been made by a conscious entity, such as God or a human…
AS-IF PERSONALITY
a personality style in which the individual behaves as if he or she was well adjusted, but in fact is…
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (AT)
1. the field of development concerned with the service provision of utilities that improve the functioning of individuals with disabilities.…
ASSOCIATIONISTIC THEORY OF LEARNING
one of various theories that describes learning as occurring through a process of forming associations among items. These items may…
ASSUMPTION
u. 1. the premise or supposition that something is a fact, therefore, this is the act of taking something for…
ASTROCYTOSIS
n. a pathological condition marked by a proliferation of astrocytes, which are neuroglial cells with fibrous processes (see neuroglia). The…
ATHLETE-BASED INTERVENTION
1. an intervention that develops an athlete's perceptions, experiences, or both for the purposes of improvement in the sport. 2.…
ATTENTION DISORDER
a disturbance characterized by an inability to maintain focus on an activity or difficulties taking notice of, responding to, or…
ATTENTION-DEFICITHYPERACTIVITY DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
in DSM-IV-TR, a disorder char
ATTITUDE-CONGENIALITY MEMORY EFFECT
the tendency or bias to remember information that is consistent with an already-held attitude better than information that is inconsistent…
ATTRIBUTION THEORY OF LEADERSHIP
a model of leadership that assumes that individuals make inferences about leadership ability by observing and interpreting different types of…
ATYPICAL PERVASIVE
in the DSM-lll, this represented a category of pervasive developmental disorders. In the DSM-IV-TR these are labeled pervasive development disorders…