ORGANIC RETARDATION
failure of an organ or organ system to grow normally due to an inherited flaw, dietary insufficiency, or hormonal disorder.…
ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT
activities engaged in assessing the construction, procedure, environments, and their aspects which impact the efficacy of an establishment and the…
ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS
behavior by people in an establishment which is aimed at furthering their own interests, or the interests of a specific…
ORIENTATION COLUMN
a vertical piece of striate cortex wherein all of the neurons are totally reactive to stimulants of the same orientation
ORTHOGONAL CONTRASTS
a group of comparisons among the cell averages of an aspect which, as a group, are not overlapping and not…
OSCILLOPSIA
the feeling of sensing oscillating motion of the surroundings. This illusory moving can be a result of vestibular cerebellar damage,…
OSTEOPATHY
noun. a healthcare system based upon the belief that several illnesses or dysfunctions are a result of anatomical impairments in…
OTOSCLEROSIS
noun. a development of spongy bone which grows in the middle ear and immobilizes the stapes at the place of…
OUTER PSYCHOPHYSICS
an effort to mandate the direct union between the tangible intensity of sensory stimulants and the intensity of the corresponding…
OVARIECTOMY
noun. the surgical elimination of one or both ovaries. Commonly referred to as oophorectomy.
OVEREXPECTATION
1. with regard to Pavlovian conditioning, a lessening in reacting to two (or presumably more) conditioned stimulants whenever they're linked…
OVERPRODUCTIVE IDEAS
racing thoughts or rapid production of ideas frequently existing in a frenzied episode.
OBJECT CATHEXIS
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the investment of libido or psychic energy in items outlying of the individual, like an…
OBJECTIFYING ATTITUDE
a propensity to respond to an item, individual, or occurrence while at the same time, disregarding private emotions about it.
OBJECTIVISM
noun. 1. the position that decisions about the exterior world can be mandated as authentic or not authentic, independent of…
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…