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,…
THEORY X AND Y
two different forms of managerial philosophy: Theory X employers presume that employees are passive, lazy, and driven only by financial…
THERAPEUTIC RATIO
an index corresponding the clinical efficacy of a drug to its safety factor, computed by dividing the median lethal dose…
THERMALGESIA
noun. an irregular or odd response to heat wherein a warm stimulant generates pain.
THIN STRIPES
skinny bands of escalated cytochrome oxidase activity within the area of the prestriate cortex recognized as V2.
THOMAS S CLASS ACTION
a class action lawsuit in North Carolina which mandated a special category of individuals with cognitive retardation who lived in…
THOUGHT PROCESS
any of the mental procedures involved in cognitive activities which are past interpretation, like remembering, reasoning, problem solving, imagining, and…
THRESHOLD OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the psychological degree to which stimulants enter consciousness, characterized with regard to duration, stimulant severity, and pertinence. It applies to…
THYROPLASTY
any surgical process on the cartilages of the larynx to change the position or length of the vocal cords in…
TIME AND RHYTHM DISORDERS
speech and language difficulties correlated with the timing of noises and syllables, inclusive of repetitions, intensions, and stuttering. The disorders…
TIME-LAG EFFECT
age differences observed in cross-sectional analyses which are a result of differences between cohorts. This impact can be gauged by…
TONIC ACTIVATION
a type of stimulation mediated by the reticular formation and distinguished as tonic due to its continual impacts.
TOPAGNOSIS
noun. 1. loss of the capacity to localize touch. People can feel tactile stimulation but cannot recognize the place of…
TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL
the initial dividing of the psyche into three areas or systems as postulated by Sigmund Freud in 1913. The divided…
TOTAL PROCESSING SPACE
the sum of operating space and storage in working memory which is accessible to an individual for the performance of…