CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
a department of psychology which examines likeness and difference in human actions spanning various cultures and recognizes the varying psychological…
CULTURAL-FAMILIAL MENTAL RETARDATION
cognitive retardation, typically slight, which takes place in lieu of any recognized natural cause and is thereby credited to genetic…
ACCENTUATION THEORY
Henri Tajfel's concept that points out a tendency to over-emphasize the differences between things belonging to different categories, and likewise,…
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
1. the standard of day-after-day functioning in jobs that is needed for someone to satisfy very common positions in their…
ANECDOTAL RECORD
a factual written record of a person's conduct, based on succinct, spontaneous, and descriptive observations made by an onlooker. This…
APPLIED SCIENCE
an approach to science in which scientific principles and theories are applied in practical ways, for example, in the development…
ASSOCIATIVE-CHAIN THEORY
in learning theory some types of behavioral psychology (see behaviorism), a theory of how complex behaviors, including some linguistic behaviors,…
AUDIENCE EFFECT
the influence of the presence of other people on an individual's behavior. Also refers to the belief that other people…
AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR
any behavioral act that enables an individual to avoid anticipated unpleasant or painful situations, stimuli, or events, including conditioned aversive…
BEHAVIORAL CONSISTENCY
n. the state of being consistent in behavior pattern. As such, an individual is more likely to adhere to the…
BEHAVIORALLY ANCHORED RATING SCALE (BARS)
n. an appraisal method which rates performance, usually on the job. Behavior-based, this measure evaluates employee performance on a point-scale…
BROKEN HOME
n. a family system that is organized into a single-parent household. The setup usually results from a divorce of separation…
CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION
n. in speech perception, refers to the phenomenon wherein test participants experience a difficulty in discriminating between accoustically-different stimuli which…
CONCURRENT VALIDITY
the degree of communication between two measurements at the same time, primarily the investigation of one exam's validity by comparing…