GLASS CEILING
the name for the invisible barrier that prevents able and ambitious women from rising to positions of authority in many…
GONADOSTAT THEORY
the name of the mechanism that is associated with the initiation of puberty where ovarian or testicular hormones regulate hypothalamic…
GROUP HARMONY
This describes the extent to which group interactions among members are friendly, congruous and free from any conflicts.
I STATEMENT
Communication tool where the first person pronoun is used in talking about a person's issues in relationships. They reduce the…
INTERNAL VALIDITY
Degree to which a study or experiment is free from flaws in its internal structure and its results can therefore…
INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)
Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the…
INTROCEPTION
A person that is attentive and understanding to the motives, needs and experiences of herself or himself and others. It…
INVOLUNTARY TURNOVER
An organization and the number of employees who leave involuntarily in a given period. Involuntary turnover is the distinction usually…
JOB DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY (JDS)
It is the measure of the motivational components of a job, as identified by the job characteristics MODI I. of…
KETOCONAZOLE
It is an antifungal agent that has been suggested as a treatment for depression resistant to conventional drugs, due to…
LABELED LINES
Inputs to the brain that are nerve inputs and the brain conceptualized as each reporting only one particular type of…
LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS (LH)
The portion of the hyothalamus which aides in the process of eating and stimulation of this part of the brain…
EXTRINSIC RELIGION
is the binary opposite of intrinsic religion. Extrinsic religion primarily concerns itself with the social and moral obligations to those…
FACIAL EXPRESSION
was first theorized and discussed by the British biologist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) as a form of communication between…
FACTORIAL INVARIANCE
is a theory which implies all variables (not only certain variables in a select group) remain identical during the processes…
FALSIFICATIONISM
was first proposed by Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) postulating that only through falisification can a concept…
FEATURE ABSTRACTION
Hypothetical process where a person learns from experience with the exemplars of different categories where features are used to describe…
FIRST-ORDER FACTOR
Used in factor analysis. Any factors that are derived from the correlation among the manifest variables, as opposed to second-…
FLOW PATTERN
a term that is used to describe the aggregate movement of the elements that are in a visual scene as…