TOUGH LOVE
the fostering of peoples' health by requiring said people to behave accountably and to look for professional help whenever they…
TRACE CONDITIONING
a process in Pavlovian conditioning wherein an unconditioned stimulant and a conditioned stimulant are divided by a persistent interval, with…
TRAIT-NEGATIVITY BIAS
the propensity for negative character traits to play a greater role than positive character traits in determining overall impressions and…
TRANSCENDENCE
noun. With regard to metaphysics and within the analysis of awareness, a state of presence or interpretation which goes beyond…
TRANSECTION
noun. the transverse cutting or severing of something, like a nerve tract or the spinal cord.
TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA (TGA)
an abrupt global amnesia, a type of temporary amnestic disorder, which commonly resolves within a day and takes place in…
TRANSLATION AND BACK-TRANSLATION
a way of guaranteeing that the translation of an evaluation tool into another language is sufficient, utilized mainly in cross-social…
TRANSVESTIC FETISHISM
in the DSM-IV-TR, a paraphilia involving the continual wearing by a heterosexual man of woman's clothing with the intention of…
TREATMENT AUDIT
a process which oversees and measures quality assurance in health care. Audit activities are inclusive of evaluation of the anatomy,…
TRITANOPIA
a fairly uncommon type of color blindness wherein there is some loss of luminosity within the blue part of the…
TRUE VARIANCE
naturally happening variability within or across research parties. This variance is inherent within the nature of the involved party and…
TUFTED CELL
one of the specialized forms of cells engaged in the perception of smell. The tufted cells are efferent neurons residing…
TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM
a differentive approach to overcoming compulsions or addictive or behavioral difficulties which was cultivated initially in Alcoholics Anonymous to aid…
TWO-TAILED TEST
a statistical test of an experimental hypothesis which doesn't ascertain the predicted direction of an impact or an association.
TYPE II ERROR
the error of failing to refute the null hypothesis whenever it is actually not authentic. Investigators make this error if…