GESTALT PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION
Principles of perception that are derived by Gestalt psychologists that describe the tendency to perceive and interpret certain configurations at…
GLUCURONIDATION
Name of the metabolic process where drugs and other substances are combined with glucuronic acid to form more water soluble…
GRAPHOLOGY
the term used to describe the analysis of a person's handwriting as a means of inferring stable personality characteristics or…
GROUP TEST
the term that is applied to the test administered to several individuals simultaneously. Compare individual test.
INTERPOSITION
the term for the monocular depth cue when 2 objects are in the one line of vision and the close…
INTRACRANIAL SELF-STIMULATION
Brain region and the stimulation by electrodes that are implanted and the individual controls them when they are stimulated. In…
ITEM DIFFICULTY
item difficulty in a test determined by the proportion of individuals who correctly respond to the item in particular.
JONAH COMPLEX
inhibition of becoming entirely self-actualized for fear of facing new challenges and situations.
KIRTON ADAPTION-INNOVATION INVENTORY (KAI)
It is designed to measure creativity, cognitive style and the degree to which individuals are adaptive, innovative or a range…
LANGUAGE CONTACT
The sociolinguistic situation in which two or more language communities come into contact for reasons of commerce or politics .
EXTRACEPTION
was first defined by U.S. psychologist Henry Alexander Murray (1893 - 1988) as an attitude of skepticism towards a specific…
FACTOR LOADING
is a term used primarily within the process of factor analysis; it is the correlational relationship between the manifest and…
FALSE DEMENTIA
is a medical phenomena when the condition actually mimics the symptoms of dementia but is in actual fact a simple…
FANATICISM
is observed across modern society and the global stage as an excessive and usually irrational zeal or devotion towards a…
FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT
the term that describes the Gestalt perceptual phenomenon where a shift of vision from the first figure superimposes its image…
FIXED-INTERVAL SCHEDULE (FI SCHEDULE)
schedule of reinforcement that was known as periodic reinforcement where the first response after an interval will be reinforced. It…