ATHLETIC COPING SKILLS INVENTORY (ACSI)
a common self-report inventory that is used to assess an individual
ATROPINE-COMA THERAPY (ACT)
a historical method of treating agitation and psychoses by administering a dose of atropine sulfate to induce coma.
ATTENTION LEVEL
the degree to which a task is reportable or conscious. Tasks that produce high attention-level demands are likely to interfere…
ATTENTION-GETTING
describes a type of behavior, often inappropriate, that is used to gain attention or reinforcement of some type. Childhood temper…
ATTITUDE-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE
information directly associated with an attitude object that is triggered in memory (via schemas) when encountering the object. Attitude relevant…
ATTRIBUTION THERAPY
refers to a form of therapy in which the therapist tries to modify a client's attributions of events and behavior.…
ATYPICAL PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER
a sexual difficulty that does not meet diagnostic criteria for sexual dysfunction or any type of sexual deviancy. In the…
AUDIOGRAVIC ILLUSION
refers to the mislocalization of sounds that occurs when the body is tilted or the direction of gravity is altered
AUDITORY CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TEST (ACPT)
a test that measures a person's ability to attend to auditory stimuli for an extended period. One such test comprises…
AUDITORY NERVE
the portion of the eighth cranial nerve (see vestibulocochlear nerve) that deals exclusively with the sense of hearing. The nerve…
AUGMENTATION
n. 1. an increase in the amplitude of the average number of evoked responses, either above background noise in the…
AUTHORITARIAN LEADER
the type of leader who determines policy and makes decisions autocratically, rejects suggestions from others, assigns tasks to group members…
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY INTERVIEW (AMI)
a semistructured interview which is designed to assess memory for autobiographical information. Impairment of this type of memory is often…
AUTOHYPNOSIS
n. a type of self-induced hypnosis. It may occur spontaneously or be intentionally achieved through training in autosuggestion.
AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION OF ATTITUDES
the spontaneous activation of an attitude when this cued by the encountering of the attitude object. Essentially, the person's whole…
AUTOMATON CONFORMITY
beliefs expressed or behaviors displayed by individuals who unthinkingly conform to the demands of the roles they occupy - or…
AUTONOMIC MOTOR POOL
motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord that birth nerves that ultimately supply autonomic ganglia.
AUTOPOESIS
n. refers to a system, often a brain-based architecture, in which the constituent modular components support, nurture, and maintain each…
AUTOSOMAL TRISOMY OF GROUP
refers to the condition in which either of the chromosome in pairs 21 or 22 (known as group G) includes…