ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE
cognitive abilities that are regarded as being highly imperative to achieve academic success.
ACTION ORIENTATION
a style of replying to challenges or disputes that is classified by fast, definitive procedure instead of by extended examination…
AFTERIMAGE
noun. The visual which stays present even after a stimulant ceases or is taken away. A positive doesn't happen very…
ALGOPSYCHALIA
noun. tangible aches acknowledged by the complainant as existing in a cognitive or emotional capacity rather than being of physical…
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
introduced by a German psychologist, Alois Alzheimer, an advanced illness of the brain stemming from large amounts of destruction of…
ANAL PERSONALITY
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, a trend of character traits thought to result from the anal stage of psychosexual developing,…
ANTICIPATORY MOVEMENT
an instinctive movement based on (a) predicted changes in the environment (e.g., predictive smooth eye or hand movements to track…
APPARENT MOVEMENT
an illusion of motion or change of size that is cued by visual tricks. For example, a person sitting in…
APTITUDE-TREATMENT INTERACTION
a hypothesis that certain patterns of aptitudes respond better to certain sets of treatments. For example, people with higher spatial…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
a sub discipline of computer science that aims to produce programs and articles that simulate human intelligence. AI researchers often…
ASSOCIATIVE CLUSTERING
the tendency for items with preexisting associations in memory to be recalled together during the verbal recall of a word…
AUDITORY STIMULUS
any stimulus capable of eliciting auditory sensation. This usually refers to a distinct airborne sound, but can also include vibration…