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VIRGIN 1

noun. an individual who has never had sex. 2. adjective. referencing an untainted or innate state.

VISCEROTONIA

noun. the personality type which, in accordance with Sheldon's constitutional theory of personality, is correlated with an endomorphic body type

VISUAL ATTENTION

the procedure by which one object, the objective, is chosen for study from among many competitor objects, the distractors.

VISUAL EXTINCTION

a type of visual neglect wherein a formerly visible stimulant in one half of the visual field disappears whenever a

VISUAL MASKING

the effect of one visual stimulant making another stimulant invisible.

VISUAL TEXTURE

a characteristic of a 2-D figure or a 2-D interpretation of a 3-D item which depicts its exterior traits. Visual

VISUOSPATIAL SCRATCHPAD

an element or subsystem of working memory utilized for practicing or employing visual, imaginal, or spatial data.

VIVIDNESS TRAINING

training to enhance the capacity to generate extremely clear, crisp cognitive pictures wherein the colors are different and the details

VOCATIONAL APTITUDE TEST

any test modeled to evaluate the skills, interests, characteristics, and other aspects thought to be vital for excelling in a

VOICE-OUTPUT SYSTEM

a system which generates a voice for a computer to render auditory feedback for people with visual disability.

VOLUNTARY AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

nonprofit groups supported entirely or partly by public donations and committed to the restructuring of public wellbeing or social welfare

VON RESTORFF EFFECT

a memory-procedure theory postulating that an object which is different from others within a sequence will be recalled more than

VAGAL TONE

a gauge of the variability of the heart rate associated with inhaling and exhaling, that is considered to exhibit parasympathetic

VALIDITY GENERALIZATION MODEL OF SELECTION

with regard to personnel selection, an approach to evaluating if a test or predictor has validity in foretelling performance on

VARIABLE

noun. An amount in an experiment or test which ranges, that being, takes on many different values which can be

VAS DEFERENS

the duct of the testis which transfers spermatozoa from the epididymis onto the ejaculatory duct, shaped by union of the

VEDANTA

noun. an accumulation of metaphysical theories and cognitive practices which arose in India around the sixth century be and stemmed

VENTRAL STREAM

a sequence of specialized visual areas inside the brain's cerebral cortex which begin inside the occipital lobe's striate cortex and

VERBAL ABILITY (V)

exhibited skill to understand and correspond adequately with words. At times, a differention is made between receptive and productive skills.

VERBAL MEMORY

the ability to recall something penned or spoken which was already learned.