FUNCTIONAL REORGANIZATION
These are the changes that occur after a brain injury to enable other areas of the brain to take over…
GARCIA EFFECT
the name of a conditioned taste aversion that is achieved rapidly by a single pairing of illness such as nausea…
GENDER IDENTITY
the recognition of being male or female resulting from a combination of biological and psychic influences, family attitudes and cultural…
GENERAL GENETIC LAW OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
The idea that a child's development is embedded in culture and occurs on two planes: first the social, between individuals,…
GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS
3 types of effects proposed. 1. Passive from biologically related parents. 2. Evocative from responses elicited by others. 3. active…
GROUP DYNAMICS
1. Dynamic and not static processes of a group affecting patterns and changes in communication, decisions and power. 2. Psychology.…
GUSTATORY SYSTEM
all of the primary structures that are involved with detection and responses to taste and eating. Includes taste buds, papillae,…
INTERNAL CONSISTENCY
term used to describe the degree to which all the items on a test measure the same thing.
INTERSPECIES INTERACTION
Interactions between species and all forms of it. Interactions that are long term and include parasitism, which is one species…
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
A specific activity with an incentive to engage and is derived from the activity itself (e.g. a genuine interest in…
INVOLUNTARY ERRORS
Knowing they are mistakes and errors that are made in spite of this, a slip of the tongue and and…
JOB DESCRIPTIVE INDEX (JI)I)
a 72-item instrument measuring employees' attitudes in areas such as work, pay, supervision, promotions and coworkers.
KENNARD PRINCIPLE
This principle that brain damage sustained early in life is less debilitating that brain damage sustained in later life, presumably…
LATENT TRAIT THEORY
A model for the design of instruments used in observing traits or testing unobservable traits. The preferred method of developing…
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
is the binary opposite to intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation explains the drive for an individual to participate within a specific…