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…
VALENCE-INSTRUMENTALITY-EXPECTANCY THEORY
a theory of work motivation positing that the degree of effort put out by workers will rely on a mixture…
VASODILATION
noun. widening of blood vessels, through the functioning of a vasomotor nerve or a medicine, that has the impact of…
VENN DIAGRAM
a visual symbolization of components and associations in set algebra. It is a figure wherein circles symbolize the set's components,…
VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC SYNDROME
a group of indicators elicited by experimental lesions inside the ven tromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus inside the brain. The…
VERBAL INTELLIGENCE
the capacity to utilize words and mixtures of words well in correspondence and problem solving.
VESTED INTEREST
the degree to which an outlook item is viewed as being associated with an individual's material self-interest. It is presumed…
VESTIBULOSPINAL TRACT
a trace which transmits impulses to the spinal cord from the vestibular nuclei. It is separated into medial and lateral…
VICARIOUS ENJOYMENT
the satisfaction one gets as an outcome of another's gains or other positive encounters, frequently due to an identification with…
VINELAND SOCIAL MATURITY SCALE,
presently consists of objects for ages from infancy to 90 years old. Information is collected via a scoring form or…
VISCERAL BRAIN
the region of the brain which is engaged in the neurophysiological management of emotion-based actions and experience. Its significant structures…
VISUAL ANGLE
the angle subtended by a visual objective at the nodal point of the eye. The girth of an adult thumb…