TWO-SPIRIT
noun. With regard to some Native American societies, an individual, commonly a man, who assumes the gender identity of the…
TYPE I ERROR
the error of refuting the null hypothesis whenever it is actually authentic. Investigators make this error whenever they believe they…
TECHNOLOGICAL GATEKEEPER
an organizational or group role which consists of channeling data regarding technological innovations into the establishment from the outside. Individuals…
TELEGRAPHIC SPEECH
1. concentrated or abbreviated speech wherein only the most central terms, postulating the greeted level of data, are stated. Nouns…
TEMPORAL APPRAISAL THEORY
a design postulating that individual's assessments of themselves in the past are generally more negative than their present assessments of…
TEMPORAL SUMMATION
a neural mechanism wherein an urge is propagated by two consecutive postsynaptic potentials neither of which is effective or intense…
TERMINAL BEHAVIOR
1. with regard to free-operant conditioning under interval-based reinforcement, actions that are predominant within the time briefly prior to reinforcement…
THALAMIC TASTE AREA
the region of the thalamus which transmits taste data from the solitary nucleus to the main taste cortex. About one…
THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR
a theory which is similar to the theory of reasoned action but also integrates the construct of perceived behavioral control,…
THERAPEUTIC GROUP
a set of individuals who meet under the guidance of a therapy professional to work as a team toward enhancement…
THIAZIDE DIURETICS
a set of synthetic chemicals cultivated in the 1950's and widely utilized as diuretics for the remediation of hypertension. Thiazides…
THIRD-PARTY PAYER
an establishment, generally an insurance company, government agency, or prepayment plan, which pays for the health costs encountered by the…
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
the procedure of picturing a theoretical research set-up and what the outcome may be of performing the picturing experiment, with…