BARTLEY V KREMENS
n. a 1976 lawsuit which ended in a decision by the Pennsylvania court (1977) to provide legal counsel and to…
BASES OF AN ATTITUDE
n. typical sources from which information is derived and an attitude is based. Research reveals that there are three bases…
BASIC TECHNIQUE (BT)
n. in parapsychology, refers to the use of Zener cards as a method to detect precognition. This cognitive ability is…
BATTERED-WOMAN SYNDROME (BWS)
n. a psychological condition which results from severe and repeated acts of domestic violence. Not all battered women suffer from…
BEHAVIOR CHANGE
n. any modification in behavior (mainly human) in public health. The change may happen spontaneously and involuntarily without any intevention,…
BEHAVIOR RECORD
n. a complete log of observations recorded within a pre-specified time frame. Ideally, this record provides a thorough and acccurate…
BEHAVIORAL CONTAGION
n. a tendency for the behavior of one or more people to be copied by others rapidly and compulsively. With…
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
n. in behavioral medicine, refers to a subspecialty which studies the reciprocal relationship between overall well-being of the person and…
BEHAVIORAL PATHOGEN
n. a behavior pattern or type of lifestyle which is detrimental to the health. This lifestyle is associated with a…
BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF OBEDIENCE
n. an experiment which graphically documents how individuals would be willing to obey orders from an authority figure, even if…
BEING-IN-THE-WORLD
n. in existential psychology, refers to a type of being which is characteristic of humans. This existence is supposed to…
BELL'S PHENOMENON
n. a normal defense reflex, this is an observable upward-and-outward movement of the globes of the eyes when attempting to…
BENZEDRINE
n. trade name for amphetamine. Formerly prescribed only as a bronchodilator and an appetite suppressant, this stimulant should be used…
BEST-FIRST SEARCH
n. an approach to problem-solving which chooses a path closest to the solution first. The strategy involves evaluating all possible…
BETWEEN-GROUPS DESIGN
n. an experimental design which involves two (or more) groups of participants simultaneously being tested. In the process, the effect…
BILINGUAL EDUCATION
n. in education, refers to a method of instruction in two different languages. Typically, the first is in one's own…
BINOMIAL EFFECT SIZE DISPLAY
n. a method of explaining the variance by arraying experimental results in a manner that clearly displays the effect of…
BIOEQUIVALENCE
n. in pharmacokinetics, refers to a measure that compares the bioavailability of substances with the same dose but of different…
BIOLOGICAL FALLACY
n. the assumption which concludes that all human phenomena can be explained by biological factors and processes. This is viewed…