ARTICULATION TEST
1. the phonetic recording and analysis of the speech of an individual with faulty sound production. This is conducted according…
ASSEMBLY TEST
a test requiring participants to put together elements in the creation of a whole. Usually assessing perceptual organization among other…
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE
any organization, business or supplier that directly assists individuals with disabilities with choices relating to the purchase or leasing of…
ASSOCIATION-REACTION TIME
in any type of word-association test, the time that has elapsed between stimulus presentation and the response.
ASSYMPTOTIC NORMALITY
a property of a statistical distribution whereby the distribution becomes indistinguishable from the normal distribution, because one or more of…
ATAQUE DE NERVIOS
a culture-bound syndrome observed mainly among Latinos, and most similar to anxiety. Common symptoms include trembling, crying, uncontrollable shaking, verbal…
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…