ISOMORPHISM
1. In cognition, the relationship between a perceived stimulus and the resulting verbal process as in pronunciation of a printed…
JOB PERFORMANCE
Quantity or quality of output, or against multiple criterion dimensions. See employee evaluation, job criterion, performance review. Effectiveness of job…
KINESTHETIC FEEDBACK
Provided by stretch receptors in the muscle spindles and tendons as well as by receptors in the joints. Information about…
LAMOTRIGINE
Although ineffective for treating acute maniac episodes it has gained acceptance as a single drug treatment for acute bipolar depression…
LAWS OF THOUGHT
The principles that define logical thought deemed to be essential to the rational thought process.
EYE-HAND COORDINATION
is the combined motions of the hands and eyes, working in tandem, for example; an infant may locate a toy…
FACILITATED COMMUNICATION
was first developed by Australian educator Rosemary Crosslet (1945 -) in the 1970s as method of enabling the communication of…
FALSE ANALOGY
is one method of delivering an entirely invalid conclusion by associating two variables with each other or establishing an invalid…
FAMILY COUNSELING
is one of the various types of counselling whereby parents, or even other family members, work with trained individual's such…
FIELD INDEPENDENCE
a cognitive style where the person relies on internal cues and will disregard deceptive cues from the external world. Compare…
FLUID-CRYSTALLIZED INTELLIGENCE THEORY
the theory that intelligence is of 2 kinds, fluid and crystallised. Fluid copes with new problems and situations where as…
FORCED COPULATION
the copulation of a male with an unwilling female seen in animals and insects. The larger male will monopolise the…
FORMATIVE EVALUATION
the name of the process that is concerned with helping to improve or guide the development of a program through…
FRONTAL LOBE
one of the four main lobes of each cerebral hemisphere lying in front of the central sulcus. It is concerned…
FUNCTIONAL ASYMMETRY
the term for the perceptual superiority of one eye or one ear for certain stimuli. The right ear may be…
FUNDAMENTAL SYMPTOMS
The 4 primary symptoms of schizophrenia according to Bleuler, abnormal associations, autistic behaving and thinking, abnormal effect and ambivalence. Compare…
GATEKEEPER ROLE
the responsibility of judges to determine the admissibility in court of both scientific and non-scientific expert testimony according to criteria…