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…
VALUES CLARIFICATION
1. any procedure aimed to advocate for a person's awareness and comprehension of their moral standards and ethical priorities and…
VARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRIX
with regard to multivariate statistics, a matrix whose diagonal components are the variances of variants and whose non-diagonal components are…
VERBAL CONDITIONING
the conditioning of a verbal reaction via reinforcement, generally rendered in the form of reward or positive attention. The experiment…
VERBATIM TRACE
an exact, literal memory symbolization. In accordance with the fuzzy trace theory, verbatim traces are not as simply retrieved, usually…
VERTICAL MOBILITY
the motion or displacement of people or groups from one social class to new social class. This might take the…
VESTIBULE TRAINING
an approach to personnel training wherein new workers, prior to beginning their work tasks, spend some time learning in a…
VIBROTACTILE THRESHOLD
the minimal degree of arousal at which a vibration is felt. Various forms of mechanoreceptors are sensitive to many particular…
VIGILANCE DECREMENT
with regard to a vigilance job, a reduction in the amount of targets discovered which takes place after a brief…
VISUAL AGRAPHIA
a handicapped capacity to write stemming from a failure to identify letters, numerals, or terms. The condition is elicited by…