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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…

OLSAT

acronym form of: the Otis-Lennon school ability test.

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…

OPHTHALMOPLEGIA

1. paralyzing of at least one of the exterior or interior ocular muscles.

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…

ORAL SEX

arousal of the exterior genitalia by the partner

ORDER STATISTIC

a statistic based solely on the location of an observation within a group of such.

ORGAN OF CORTI

postulated by Italian anatomist Alfonso Corti, a specialized construct which resides upon the basilar membrane within the cochlea inside the…

ORGANIC SENSATION

a feeling which stems from deep inside the body. Commonly referred to as visceral feeling.