ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING
1. a method of teaching individuals to change verbal and nonverbal behavioral patterns with the aim of enhancing interpersonal communication.…
ASSOCIATION CORTEX
one of many areas of the cerebral cortex that are not principally involved in sensory or motor representations. However, these…
ASSOCIATIVE LAW
any of the principles referring to how associations are acquired and strengthened. These terms were originally derived from British empiricist…
ATTACHMENT THEORY
a theory that (a) suggests an evolutionarily advantage, especially in primates, for the forming of close emotional bonds with significant…
ATTENTION SPAN
1. the length of time an individual can sustain attention to one task. 2. the amount of material retained during…
ATTENUATION
1. the lessening or weakening in strength, value, or quality of a stimulus or other factor, for example, a medication…
ATYPICAL TIC DISORDER
in the DSM-lll, this represented a category of tic disorders. In the DSM-IV-TR these are labeled as tic disorders not…
AUDIOMETRY
the measurement of an individual's hearing ability with electronic audiometers for the purposes of diagnosing and analyzing hearing loss. Audiometry…
AUDITORY DISTANCE PERCEPTION
the ability to assess the distance of the source of a sound, based solely on acoustic information. Humans are fairly…
AUTOCHTHONOUS GESTALT
a perceptual pattern that is created by internal factors (autochthonous forces) rather than factors of the external stimulus, or the…
AUTOKINESIS
n. 1. refers to any type of voluntary movement. 2. an illusory perception of movement, for example, that experienced by…