VENTILATION CONDITIONS
Atmospheric conditions—primarily temperature, humidity, and air flow—constitute an important problem in industrial psychology and human engineering, since they have considerable…
VIGOTSKY TEST
A test of conceptual thinking in which the subject classifies blocks according to different characteristicsdeveloped by the Soviet psychologist L.…
VISIBILITY CURVE
A graph representing the sensitivity of the eye to different wavelengths of light. Two types of curves are usually constructed,…
VISIBLE SPECTRUM
The range of electromagnetic waves visible to the human eye.Our sense of vision is activated by radiant energy emitted or…
VISUAL DEFECTS
Common visual defects so often affect behavior and adjustment that they are usually included in the field of psychology. Most…
VOLUNTEER WORKERS
In recent years mental health clinics and mental hospitals have been using more and more volunteersnot only because of the…
VAGUS NERVE
the tenth cranial nerve, a combined nerve with both motor and sensory fibers which serves a multitude of operations. The…
VALUES EDUCATION
1. direction which is centered upon standards, moral principles, or ethical traits which are thought of as favorable, as well…
VASOCONSTRICTION
noun. thinning of blood vessels, that is managed by vasomotor nerves of the SNS or via agents like the vasopressin…
VENTRICULOSTOMY
noun. a remediation for hydrocephalus wherein an opening is made between the third ventricle's floor in the brain and the…
VERBAL FACTOR
a factor attained through factor analysis which symbolizes the latent characteristic rooted in verbal skills.
VERBIGERATION
noun. Repeating of certain terms or statements which supposedly or obviously lack connotation.
VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE
the 8th cranial nerve: a sensorial nerve comprised of tracts which innervate both the sense of hearing and that of…
VISUAL ALLACHESTHESIA
a indicator of a parietal lobe lesion developed as a transposition of visual pictures to a converse point in space.