FREE-FLOATING ATTENTION
Found in psychoanalysis and in other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the analyst's or therapist's state of evenly suspended attention during…
FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
1. Assessment to identify circumstances and consequences associated with a certain behaviour. Defined in measurable terms. Used to design treatments…
GLUCURONIDATION
Name of the metabolic process where drugs and other substances are combined with glucuronic acid to form more water soluble…
INTERRUPTED-TIME-SERIES DESIGN
Experimental de-sign with an intervention and the effects of it are compared and evaluated with an outcome that is measured…
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FIRST-ORDER FACTOR
Used in factor analysis. Any factors that are derived from the correlation among the manifest variables, as opposed to second-…
FREE-RUNNING RHYTHM
the term for the cycle of behavior or physiological activity that occurs if external stimuli do not provide entrainment. See…
FUNCTIONAL LIMITATION
a term given to the restriction or lack of ability in performing an action or activity.
GOAL DIFFICULTY
the term that is used to describe the degree of ability, effort and time commitment needed to achieve a certain…
INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)
Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the…
JOB CONTEXT
significant aspects of the work situation different from the work itself. It is the physical environment of the work -…
FISHBOWL TECHNIQUE
a process used in groups where people form an inner and an outer circle. The outer circle observes the inner…
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
These are the activities that will develop from aptitudes like mechanical ability, artistic talent and writing.
GOAL ORIENTATION
1. Tendency for a person to physically and mentally position themselves toward their goal. 2. Characteristic of a person tending…
INTERVENING VARIABLE
1. Is an entity and hypothetical and is influenced by an independent variable and influences in turn a variable dependent.…
JOHN HENRY EFFECT
an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.
FACILITATED COMMUNICATION
was first developed by Australian educator Rosemary Crosslet (1945 -) in the 1970s as method of enabling the communication of…