ANTICIPATORY GUIDANCE
counseling, therapeutic, or educational services provided to individuals or families before they undergo a significant change in their lives. Examples…
APTITUDE-TREATMENT INTERACTION
a hypothesis that certain patterns of aptitudes respond better to certain sets of treatments. For example, people with higher spatial…
ATTACHMENT BEHAVIOR
1. behavior associated implicated in the formation of significant relationships, for example, symbiosis with the mother. 2. also refers to…
AUTHORITATIVE PARENTING
a collaborative parenting style in which the parent encourages autonomy and independence yet still places fair limitations or restrictions on…
BABINSKI REFLEX
the innate reflex occurring in a healthy infant whereby the toes extend upward when the sole of the foot is…
BEHAVIOR HIERARCHY
n. in the study of of behavior, refers to a ranking of possible behavioral responses based on the relative probablity…
BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS
n. a descriptive analysis of the internal behavior patterns which motivate or cause the overt, external behavior. There is a…
BIOCHEMICAL DEFECT
n. a metabolic defect which contibutes to the onset of a neurological or psychiatric condition. This defect may either be…
BLENDED FAMILY
n. a family unit that results from the union of two parents, both with a child or children from previous…
CANALIZATION
n. in evolutionary genetics, refers to the repression of variation by containing them within narrow bounds. In neurology, refers to…
CAUSAL MECHANISM
n. the physical, if not the most immediate, means of bringing about the desired effect. For instance, other than using…
CONDITIONING
the manner in which specific types of experience make certain behaviors more or less probably.
CONSTITUTIONAL FACTOR
a fundamental psychological propensity to add to character, nature, and the philosophy of certain physical and cognitive diseases. Said elements…
COOPERATING TEACHER
1. the well-honed skilled educator in the educator-pupil relationship. 2. a trained educator selected to oversee student educator interns who…
COUNTERBALANCING
the procedure involved in organizing a sequence of trial and error conditions or remedies in a way that lessens the…
CULTURE SHOCK
emotions of conflict within oneself or within a set of people that have been abruptly thrown into a culture they…
ABILITY TEST
1. a formatted or patterned way of examining mass groups of like individuals to determine the average intelligence and ability…
ACHIEVEMENT TEST
a norm-referenced and standardized test- the main goal of this examination is to calculate a persons existing skill level or…
ADOLESCENCE
the stage of development which begins with the pubescent years around the age of ten and continues up until physical…