WILLIE M CLASS ACTION
a 1979 class action lawsuit in North Carolina, settled out of court, which mandated a special category of kids of…
TESTOSTERONE
noun. a male sex hormone and the most potent androgen generated by the testes. It encourages the growth of male…
TOOL OF INTELLECTUAL ADAPTATION
a technique of thinking, learning, or recalling of a problem-solving method which kids internalize from their interplay with more competent…
TREATMENT PLAN
the suggested steps for intervening that the therapy professional or counselor plans following an evaluation of the patient being completed.…
VALUE-EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE
the role one's outlook can play in the demonstration of core values. An individual may take on a positive outlook…
VISUAL CLIFF
an apparatus to explore the cultivation of depth perception in non-speaking human babies and animals, specifically, whether depth perception is…
WITHIN-GROUP VARIANCE
the variance among identically remedied people in the same group or populace. Commonly referred to as intraclass variance.
TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL
the initial dividing of the psyche into three areas or systems as postulated by Sigmund Freud in 1913. The divided…
TRIANGULATION
noun. 1. the procedure involved in confirming a hypothesis by gathering proofs from many sources or experiments or utilizing many…
VALUES EDUCATION
1. direction which is centered upon standards, moral principles, or ethical traits which are thought of as favorable, as well…
VISUAL IMAGERY
cognitive imagery which consists of the sense of having "images" in the mind. These pictures might be memories of formative…
THEORY OF MIND
the capacity to imagine or form opinions about the cognitive states of other people: What does the other person know?…
TRAINABLE MENTALLY RETARDED
previously, depicting individuals, generally kids or young adults, with average cognitive retardation who did not seem to benefit from academic…
TRUE EXPERIMENT
an analysis wherein involved parties are designated at random to at least two experimentally manipulated remediation conditions.
VANDENBERGH EFFECT
the impacts of chemical correspondence regarding influencing age of pubescence in rodent populaces. Adult males generate a scent which can…
VOCAL COMMUNICATION
correspondence via auditory signals generally created by a vibrating organ, like the larynx within the throats of mammals or the…
WORD APPROXIMATION
a speech disruption wherein traditional words are utilized in untraditional or improper manners as in metonymy, or new but comprehensible…
THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
a well-aligned working union between patient and therpay professional, though by a great many to be a vital facet of…