CULTURAL GENOCIDE
deteriorating toward a culture's history, morals, and traditions, typically by some other, superior culturally-based group of people.
DECAY THEORY
The theory that states unless we keep using something we have remembered it will eventually go away. Also called trace-decay…
ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION
in regards to cognitive theory, a reasonable way of thinking about an agent in an abstract way that is not…
ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION
Henry Alexander Murray's proposal of the desire to conquer hurdles in addition to mastering challenging troubles. Those with higher scores…
ACTIVE LISTENING
a psychotherapeutic approach that occurs when the professional listens to a patient meticulously and diligently, inquiring as required, in an…
ADDITIVE EFFECT
with regard to statistics, the impact that the combined influence of two features is the summarization of their individual impacts,…
AGGREGATION
noun. 1. a group of living bodies in an area with no noticeable societal construction or organization, retaining the smallest…
ALPHA FEMALE
the top-notch or predominant woman in an organization, who is within reach of commodities, such as edibles and friends.
AMELIORATION
noun. a positive development concerning the seriousness of an illness or syndrome, or a lessening of the severity of its…
ANALYTICAL INTELLIGENCE
in the classical principle of intelligence, the attributes and general knowledge of a person as gauged by traditional assessments of…
ANTAGONIST
n. 1. An agent, for example a drug or hormone, that works to reduce the action of an agonist -…
APPLIED SCIENCE
an approach to science in which scientific principles and theories are applied in practical ways, for example, in the development…
AROUSAL JAG
an increase of activation followed by a sudden decrease, often accompanied by laughter to signify a release of tension. The…
ATTENTION-DEFICITHYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD AHD)
in DSM-IV-TR, this represents a behavioral syndrome characterized by the persistent presence (i.e., for 6 months or more) of six…
AUDITORY BLENDING
the ability to synthesize the individual sounds (phonemes) of a word so that the whole word can be comprehended or…