TEMPORARY COMMITMENT
emergency indeliberate hospitalization of a patient with a cognitive disorder for a limited time to observe or treat them.
TENSION LAW
a concept postulating that any veering away from an organism's optimal degree of exterior circumstances generates a state of tension.
TERMINAL CARE
services for individuals with terminal sickness, now generally rendered by hospices, that might be either freestanding units or joined with…
TEST SOPHISTICATION
familiarity with a specific test or kind of test, that may impact the score achieved on future tests.
TETARTANOPIA
noun. An uncommon type of color blindness marked by trouble in differentiating between blue and yellow. Luminosity perception is normal,…
THEOBROMINE
noun. a methylxanthine alkaloid which takes place organically within the seeds of the cocoa plant. Theobromine is anatomically alike to…
THEORY THEORY
any design of mental growth which mixes neonativism and constructivism, postulating that mental growth moves along by children producing, testing,…
THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE
the study of law as a therapeutic agent. Therapeutic jurisprudence comprises the analysis of how laws, processes, and individuals who…
THERMAL SENSITIVITY
the capacity to detect temperature, that is usually interpreted relative to the body's temperature.
THIRD-VARIABLE PROBLEM
the fact that a viewed correspondence between two variants might be because of the typical correspondence between each of the…
THOUGHT INTRUSION
disruption of the stream of consciousness by undesired cognitive contents.
THYROID HORMONES
any of the hormones broken down and dispersed by the thyroid gland. The primary thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4), is metabolized…
TIME AGNOSIA
an incapacity to interpret the passing of time, generally because of a disorder involving the temporal region of the brain.…
TIME-COMPRESSED SPEECH
terms and phrases presented to the ear with small components removed, which has the impact of escalating the rate of…
TITCHENER, EDWARD BRADFORD
A British-native, American psychologist. One of the founding generation of American psychologists, Titchener studied from Wilhelm Wundt, earning his doctorate…
TOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY
the level to which one is capable of accepting, and to act without weariness or disorientation in scenarios having conflicting…