VESTIBULAR GLANDS
two couplings of glands positioned on either side of the vaginal orifice. Their secretions lubricate the vulva and vagina and…
VIRAL HYPOTHESIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
the theory, initially postulated during the formative twentieth century, positing that psychoses seeming alike to schizophrenia are correlated to influenza…
VISUAL AREA
any of a multitude of areas of the cerebral cortex wherein the neurons are mainly vulnerable to visual arousal. Most…
VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL (VEP)
an electric potential documented from the scalp lying overtop the visual cortex in reaction to visual arousal.
VISUAL LEARNING
Conditioning or learning which relies on visual signs or objects. It is believed that the brain center for visual learning…
VISUAL STIMULATION
arousal via light which elicits a reaction within the receptor cells inside the retina.
VISUOSPATIAL AGNOSIA
a disorder of spatial orientation, that might be challenged or examined by assessing the person's ability to identify items or…
VOCATIONAL APPRAISAL
the foretelling by a vocational specialist of a client's probability for success and fulfillment in a given occupation. A vocational…
VON FREY SPECIFICITY THEORY
a nineteenth-century theory, now highly controversial, which tried to describe feelings of coldness, contact, warmth, and pain by connecting them…
VALIDITY CRITERION
an exterior standard which is utilized to identify the trait which a tool is claimed to gauge and which is…
VANISHING CUES METHODOLOGY
a computer-aided training method modeled to teach new, complex knowledge to people with memory disability. The method takes advantage of…
VASOPRESSOR
1. eliciting constriction of blood vessels and thus, elevating blood pressure. 2. vasoconstrictor.
VENTRAL ANTERIOR NUCLEUS
a nucleus of the anterior thalamus which is recipient to incoming data from the basal ganglia and conveys links to…