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…
VACUUM ACTIVITY
the event occurring of a fixed-action pattern during the absence of the usual exterior stimulant which elicits the pattern. This…
VALIDITY GENERALIZATION
a quantitative summation of all empirical research pertaining to the validity of a specific gauging tool.
VARIABILITY
noun. 1. the quality of being subject to modification or differentiation of actions or feelings. 2. With regard to statistics…
VARIMAX ROTATION
in factor analysis, a technique involved in orthogonal rotation which tries to enhance the amount of near-0 and near-1 loadings…
VENTRAL ROOT
any of the spinal roots which transport motor nerve fibers and stem from the spinal cord ventrally on both sides.
VERBAL MASOCHISM
a sex-based disorder wherein a person gets satisfaction from hearing words which are embarrassing and offending and obtains sexual arousal…
VERMIS N (PI
the median lobe of the cerebellum, that resides between the two cerebellar hemispheres.
VESTIBULAR NERVE
a separation of the vestibulocochlear nerve which transports nerve fibers from the vestibular system inside the inner ear; it is…
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 SYSTEM
the elements of the nervous system and the non-neural apparatus of the eye which add to the comprehension of visual…
VISUOSPATIAL FUNCTION
the capacity to identify the spatial facets of a shape or item in two and three dimensions.