TEST SOPHISTICATION
familiarity with a specific test or kind of test, that may impact the score achieved on future tests.
THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR
a theory which is similar to the theory of reasoned action but also integrates the construct of perceived behavioral control,…
THREAT APPRAISAL
the mental and emotional procedures involved in evaluating the possibility of and degree of threat.
TOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY
the level to which one is capable of accepting, and to act without weariness or disorientation in scenarios having conflicting…
TRAJECTORY
noun. the chain of positions through which a item passes over time during a motion.
TRANSMISSION
noun. 1. the action or procedure of eliciting something to progress from one place or individual to another. 2. With…
TRIGGER FEATURE
a particular feature, simple or complex, of a stimulant which might cause a reaction within a particular neuron
UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
a standard which it is impossible to gauge correctly on both the placement and the momentum of a particle at…
UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW
an interview which places little structure by posing open-ended questions and letting the interviewee guide the discussion into regions of…
VARIABILITY
noun. 1. the quality of being subject to modification or differentiation of actions or feelings. 2. With regard to statistics…
VERBAL CONDITIONING
the conditioning of a verbal reaction via reinforcement, generally rendered in the form of reward or positive attention. The experiment…
VISUAL STIMULATION
arousal via light which elicits a reaction within the receptor cells inside the retina.
VOLUNTARY PROCESS
any procedure characterized by intent and will. These acts are actively favored, selected, strategized, managed, and under cortical management, converse…
WHOLE METHOD OF LEARNING
a learning method wherein the complete block of material is memorized, in contract to learning the material in portions.
WORKING MEMORY
a multi-component design of short-term or active memory which has a phonological loop to preserve verbal data, a visuospatial scratchpad…
TEMPORAL PRECEDENCE
the standard that what is labeled as the cause must be displayed to have happened prior to the impact.
TESTABILITY
noun. the level to which a hypothesis or theory is able of being assessed empirically.
THEORY OF REASONED ACTION
the theory that outlooks directed at actions and subjective norms concerned with an action determine an individual's goal to perform…
THREAT TO SELF-ESTEEM MODEL
a theory postulating that assistance from another is , at times, interpreted as a danger to the self, because it…