OTHER-DIRECTED
adjective. depicting or corresponding to individuals whose morals, objectives, and actions result mostly from identification with group or collective principles…
OUTCOME DEPENDENCE
a social scenario wherein one individual's results, consisting of the rewards or punishments encountered, are determined in totality or partially…
OVERCLASSIFICATION
noun. a phenomenon wherein, at levels spanning from local schools to national trends in education, kids who are members of…
OVERINTENSITY
noun. a condition wherein at least one, but perhaps all of the following are past the optimal level for a…
OVERSHOOTING
noun. with regard to vision, the propensity for the eyes to move to a position past what is required to…
OBJECT FETISH
carnal interest and arousal centered upon a specific object. Common targets of such attention are feet, shoes, and underclothing, but…
OBJECTIVE EXAMINATION
an analysis wherein subjective decisions don't play a part in scoring. In contrast, an essay test is a subjective test.
OBLIGATE CARRIER
a person whose mother/father and youth, or whose monozygotic twin possesses a specific inherited mutation, indicating that the person must…
OBSERVING RESPONSE
behavior which results in the arrangement or clarification of discriminative stimulants.
OCCIPITAL LOBE
within each cerebral hemisphere, it is the very most posterior lobe which is correlated with the visual sense.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)
a federal department of the U.S. Department of Labor established to promote the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970,…
OCULAR DYSMETRIA
incapacity to direct saccadic eye movements to targets. Eye movements might either land short of the target or surpass it.…
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…