OTHER-TOTAL RATIO (OTR)
a formula for predicting the degree of self-awareness felt by people in social environments. The formula postulates that self-awareness escalates…
OUTCOME EVALUATION
a procedure utilized to determine whether or not a program has attained its aforementioned objectives and had the favored effect…
OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE
a dissociative experience wherein the person imagines their mind, soul, or spirit has exited the body and is functioning or…
OVERJUSTIFICATION EFFECT
a paradoxical effect wherein praising an individual for their performance can generate lower, instead of higher, strife and achievement. It…
OVERSIMPLIFICATION
noun. a depiction or description of something which excludes known vital components, making it seem to be less complex than…
OBJECT LANGUAGE
a form of computer programming language which enhances data instead of procedures. In contrast with imperative languages, with systems which…
OBJECTIVE INDICATOR
a marker or other gauging of a being, state, feeling, or action which is free of subjective bias, meaning that,…
OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION
the level that persons of the same sex or ethnic background are rendered jobs in some professions when others are…
OCULAR FLUTTER
a swift horizontal oscillation happening in both eyes whenever staring straight ahead. Flutter might additionally present following a saccade (flutter…
OLFACTORY BULB
a bulb-like tail on the olfactory nerve in the anterior area of each cerebral hemisphere. This first synapse in the…
ON RESPONSE
the depolarization of a neuron within the visual system which takes place in reaction to light segments. Neurons with on…
ONE-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
the statistical test of the probability that the means of at least three samples have been pulled from the same…