INVERTED-U HYPOTHESIS
Performance and motivation and the proposed correlation between them, the performance is poorest when motivation or arousal at very high…
JEHOVAH COMPLEX
Delusions of grandeur, which make the individual indentify with the qualities associated with God
KOHS BLOCK DESIGN TEST
Although still available as a separate stand alone instrument, the has been adapted for use as a component of various…
LATENT INHIBITION
The impedance of Pavlovian conditioning resulting from prior exposures with a conditioned stimulus before being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
TENDER-MINDEDNESS
noun. a character trait marked by intellectualism, idealism, optimism, dogmatism, religiousness, and monism.
TESTING THE LIMITS
1. a technique utilized to analyze adult age variances in mentality wherein research participants are required to perform a job…
THEORY X AND Y
two different forms of managerial philosophy: Theory X employers presume that employees are passive, lazy, and driven only by financial…
THREE-STRATUM MODEL OF INTELLIGENCE
a psychometric design of intelligence based upon a factorial reanalysis of many information sets available within the literature. It is…
TRANSCENDENCE
noun. With regard to metaphysics and within the analysis of awareness, a state of presence or interpretation which goes beyond…
TRANSPLANTATION
noun. 1. the surgical implanting of an organ or tissue from one portion of the body to another or from…
UNCONDITIONED RESPONSE (UCR UR)
the unlearned reaction to a stimulant: any initial reaction which takes place organically and in the absence of conditioning. The…
VON DOMARUS PRINCIPLE
an explanation of schizophrenic thinking based upon the idea that the person interprets two things as exactly alike only because…