TRICHOTILLOMANIA
noun. an impulse-control disorder marked by continual hair tugging or pulling on any area of one's body where hair grows,…
TRIIODOTHYRONINE (T3)
a hormone consisting of iodine which, combined with thyroxine, controls metabolic activity.
TROCHLEAR NERVE
the fourth cranial nerve, that consists of motor fibers providing the eyeball's superior oblique muscle.
TRUNCATED DISTRIBUTION
a distribution of cases which lacks at least one, if not both, ends of the distribution of values.
TUKEY TEST OF ADDITIVITY
a statistical test of the analysis which there are no interactions in experimental models wherein there is just one person…
TWILIGHT STATE
a state of clouded awareness wherein the person is transiently not aware of their current environment, experiences fleeting auditory or…
TWO-WAY FACTORIAL DESIGN, TWO-FACTOR THEORY
1. a theory of avoidance learning positing that avoidance actions are due to two types of conditioning. To start, stimulants…
TYPE IV CELL
a form of cell presumed to be a stem cell for the cultivation of taste cells. Type IV cells consist…
TECTOSPINAL TRACT
a tract of nerve fibers which starts at the superior colliculus, crosses the midline at the midbrain, and descends through…
TELLEGEN ABSORPTION SCALE (TAS)
a gauge of a someone's capacity to come to be heavily engaged in a job or other factor of the…
TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION
with regard to conditioning, a discrimination wherein the length of a stimulant or scenario is the controlling variable.
TEMPORARY THRESHOLD SHIFT (TTS)
a transient condition wherein the typical degree of hearing is modified or interrupted.
TENSOR TYMPANI
a middle ear muscle which manages the motion of the tympanic membrane. Its activation is part of the acoustic reflex.
TERMINAL INSOMNIA
a type of insomnia wherein the person continually wakes up extremely early, feeling unrefreshed, and cannot fall back asleep. It…
TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY
the legal capacity or cognitive competence to make a will. It consists of being able to comprehend and recall the…
TETRACHORIC CORRELATION
the approximated correspondence between two ongoing variants, both of which have been dichotomized and for which just the dichotomized values…
THANATOLOGY
noun. the analysis of death-related actions, thoughts, emotions, and phenomena. Death was primarily the province of theology until the 1960's,…