OBSERVATIONAL METHOD
the scientific method wherein viewers are trained to view and document actions, occurrences, or procedures as perfectly and fully as…
OCCASION SETTER
with regard to Pavlovian conditioning, a stimulant which is differentially coupled with a stimulant-stimulant contingency.
OCTAVE EFFECT
with regard to conditioning, the phenomenon wherein an experimental animal, after encountering reinforcement at one noise frequency, will respond to…
OCULOMOTOR PALSY
paralyzing of any of the extrinsic ocular muscles. This might be a consequence of injury to the muscle itself, the…
OFF-CENTERON-SURROUND
referencing a concentric receptive region wherein arousal of the core hinders the neuron of interest, whereas arousal of the encompass…
OLFACTOMETER
noun. a tool utilized to manage the order of odorants. It might have tubes which are positioned into the nostrils,…
OLFACTORY STIMULATION
the arousal of the cilia within the olfactory receptors inside the nasal cavity by inhaled odorants, that are absorbed into…
ONEIROPHRENIA
initially explained by American psychiatrist Ladislas von Meduna, a dream-like, hallucinatory condition appearing like to schizophrenia in specific symptoms, like…
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
training rendered in the place of work during typical working hours for the purpose of growing or bettering the insight,…
OPEN ECONOMY
an experimental model utilized in operant-conditioning experiments wherein a living being's ingestion of water or food comprises not just that…
OPEN-DOOR POLICY
the policy of keeping an open hospital or ward. Such a policy is correlated with the idea of a therapeutic…
OPERANT PARADIGM
1. the experimental arrangement of a contingency between a consequence and operant response. 2. more commonly, the presumption that a…
OPIOID ANTAGONIST
an agent which acts as an antagonist at opioid receptors. Typically, opioid antagonists are synthetic sub=products of morphine which, as…
OPPORTUNISTIC SAMPLING
the choosing of participants or other sampling factors for an experiment or questionnaire essentially because they're readily available.
OPTICAL DEFECT
any state of the eye which hinders rays of light from centering one's vision appropriately upon the retina.
OPTIMALITY THEORY
any of several varied ideas established to figure out the constructs or behavior which best deal with specific troubles encountered…