Neurology

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CULTURAL EPOCH THEORY

the once effective, but now widely disgraced theory that all people cultures go through like phases of economic and social

CUMULATIVE RESPONSE CURVE

a collective documentation, in graphical display, of the replies in a conditioning trial and error process. An absence of a

DECALAGE

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development about the invariant order that cognitive developments occur in. See horizontal or vertical decalage.

ABC THEORY

a theory based on the RET approach developed in 1955 by Albert Ellis, proposing that Activating events are not the

A PRIORI TEST

the testing of an experiment's hypotheses prior to the actual performance of said experiment.

A-B DESIGN

a setup for experiments requiring the measurement of the dependent variable prior to onset of the experiment and again after

ABDUCTION

noun. 1. mobility of a specific body part or limb apart from the bodily figure. 2. the action of carrying