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…
TRANSACTIONAL MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT
a context which sees development as the persistent and bi-directional interchange between an active living being with a different biological…
TRANSMITTER
noun. 1. a tool or instrument which encodes and passes a message or urgency to a receiver or helps in…
TRIPLE-CODE MODEL OF IMAGERY
a theory which tries to describe why imagery works in performance enhancement. It recommends three impacts of imagery: (i) the…
UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION THEORY (URT)
a social theory of relationship development postulating that there is a requirement to attain data about other individuals via correspondence…
UPWARD APPRAISAL
with regard to organization, the assessment of those people in managerial positions by those working under their supervision.
VARIABLE STIMULUS
any one of a group of experimental stimulants which are to be compared to a constant stimulant, step-by-step.