ANACLITIC DEPRESSION
1. a kind of reactive depression discovered in newborns who are suddenly removed from interaction with their biological mothers or…
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE
a collection of cognitive abilities in animals that are typified by learning, problem solving, and higher-order cognition. Current researchers tend…
ANTICIPATION LEARNING METHOD
a learning technique that teaches the associations between subsequent words on a list. The first word is the stimulus that…
APTITUDE TEST
an overall assessment instrument or test designed to measure (a) concrete abilities such as dexterity, visual acuity, and clerical performance-…
ARTIFACT IN RESEARCH
an extraneous and unintended factor affecting the results of research, especially one associated with the researcher (e.g., expectations, personality) or…
ASSOCIATIONISTIC THEORY OF LEARNING
one of various theories that describes learning as occurring through a process of forming associations among items. These items may…
ATTENDANT CARE
1. nonmedical, in-home personal care provided to individuals with a physical or mental disability. Typically, these people can live independently…
AUDITORY SKILLS
any or all skills related to hearing, including: auditory discrimination, auditory attention, and auditory memory. Also known as auditory processes-…
AUTOMATION
n. the state or condition in which activities are carried out automatically, especially by electronically controlled systems. This behavior is…
AVERSIVE STIMULUS
refers to any stimulus or occurrence that evokes avoidance behavior or escape behavior in an individual. Also known as an…
BALANCED BILINGUAL
refers to a person who has proficiency in two languages to the extent that his or her skills for each…
BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
n. a school of psychology which applies the principles of behaviorism, namely: theory, methodology, and philosophy. As an approach to…
BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION SCALE (BOS)
n. a method of appraising human behavior against a preferred level of performance. More of a behavior-based measure, it is…
BETWEEN-SUBJECTS DESIGN
n. an experimental design in which each person is a different sampling unit being tested under one and the same…
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
n. the internal mechanism which controls the rhythm of activities in a living organism. Referred to as biological rhythm or…
BODY MASS INDEX (BMI)
n. a measure used to calculate an individual's fitness or obesity based on set parameters. These parameters include weight, height,…