ATTITUDE THERAPY
a treatment that emphasizes the evaluation of current attitudes in terms of the origins of the attitudes, the purpose these…
ATTRIBUTION ERROR
refers to a bias in ascribing motives to behaviors or causes to outcomes. See also fundamental attribution error- group attribution…
ATYPICAL IMPULSE-CONTROL DISORDER
in the DSM-lll, this represented a category of impulse-control disorders. In the DSM-IV-TR these are labeled impulse-control disorders not otherwise…
AUDITORY BLENDING
the ability to synthesize the individual sounds (phonemes) of a word so that the whole word can be comprehended or…
AUDITORY MASKING
a reduction in the ability to detect, discriminate, or recognize a specific sound (the signal or target) due to interferences…
AUDITORY TRAINING
a type of therapy that helps people with hearing loss to distinguish sounds and understand spoken language. The therapy teaches…
AUTHENTICITY
1. the quality of being genuine and true to one's own values2. in psychotherapy and counseling, a valued characteristic of…
AUTO- (AUT-)
1. a reference to the self (e.g., autobiography). 2. may refer to self-caused (e.g., autohypnosis).
AUTOFLAGCLLATION
n. refers to sexual pleasure that is derived from striking, whipping, or beating oneself in some manner.
AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR)
the recognition of human speech by means of a computer-based process. Recognition in this context is assessed via the written…
AUTOMATIZATION
n. 1. the practice of a skill or habit to the point whereby it becomes routine and requires little if…
AUTONOMIC GANGLIA
refers to the ganglia within the autonomic nervous system. These ganglia include two chains of sympathetic ganglia (see sympathetic chain)…
AUTOSOMAL ABERRATION
refers to any disorder of bodily structure, function, or both that is associated with an alteration in the structure/number of…
AVAILABILITY ERROR
refers to cognitive errors made because the first item that comes to mind is often mistaken for the best or…
AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY
refers to a specialty in applied psychology that focuses on understanding human psychology as it relates to the operation and…
ABILITY GROUPING
1. categorization within learning environments that divides individuals based on their individual aptitudes and groups them together with like persons.