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TEST SOPHISTICATION

familiarity with a specific test or kind of test, that may impact the score achieved on future tests.

TOLERANCE

noun. 1. a condition, stemming from continual utilization of a drug, marked by a significant lessened impact with regular use

TRIPARTITE THEORY OF ATTITUDES

a theory of attitude structure postulating which an outlook is based upon or contains affective, mental, and behavioral elements.

VARIANCE

noun. a gauging of the spread, or dispersion, of scores within a sample, whereby a small variance implies very similar

WITHIN-GROUP VARIANCE

the variance among identically remedied people in the same group or populace. Commonly referred to as intraclass variance.

THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST (TAT)

a projective test wherein involved parties are held to reveal their outlooks, emotions, problems, and personality traits within the written

TOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY

the level to which one is capable of accepting, and to act without weariness or disorientation in scenarios having conflicting

TRUE EXPERIMENT

an analysis wherein involved parties are designated at random to at least two experimentally manipulated remediation conditions.

VARIANT

noun. With regard to a set of items or occurrences, one which varies from the others in some manner while

THEORY

a managerial philosophy which tries to integrate facets of Japanese management practices into American corporate society. It stresses participative decision-making

TRAINING

noun. with regard to Gestalt psychology, the utilization of the solution to one problem in solving another problem which shares

TRUE SCORE

with regard to classical test theory, the portion of a gauge or score which depicts the actual quantity of the

VARIED MAPPING

during a search task, a condition wherein target and distractor stimulus alter roles at random during the course of an

THEORY OF MIND

the capacity to imagine or form opinions about the cognitive states of other people: What does the other person know?

TRAIT THEORY

approaches which explain character traits with regard to individual facets of one's personality, that being, interior traits which are thought

TYPICALITY EFFECT

the discovery that individuals are faster to make category judgments regarding common members of a category than they are to

VENTILATION

with regard to counseling and psychotherapy, a patient

THEORY X AND Y

two different forms of managerial philosophy: Theory X employers presume that employees are passive, lazy, and driven only by financial

TRAIT-NEGATIVITY BIAS

the propensity for negative character traits to play a greater role than positive character traits in determining overall impressions and

TYPOLOGY

noun. any study of a specific classification of phenomena into categories based upon typical traits of a personality.