VERBAL LEARNING TRADITION,
an attempt to unearth fundamental laws of learning by analyzing simple materials in controlled circumstances.
VERIFICATION TIME
with regard to analyses of cognition, a gauge of the time it takes for someone to imply whether a statement…
VESTIBULAR ILLUSION
a spatial disorientation because of incorrect vestibular data, after adaptation of a vestibular receptor.
VESTURED GENITAL APPOSITION
carnal activity wherein clothed people position their genital areas together and grind or rub them against one another, simulating sex.
VICIOUS CIRCULARITY 1
the logical problem which is displayed by specific types of self-referring paradox, like "This sentence is not true", and by…
VIRAL MARKETING
a type of Internet marketing wherein customers tell other customers about new items or services by transmitting e-mails either advocating…
VISCEROGENIC NEED
one of the main, physiological necessities which stem from natural procedures and generate physical satisfaction. They are inclusive of the…
VISUAL ASSOCIATION CORTEX
any of the visual regions inside the cerebral cortex which reside exterior to the striate cortex, inclusive of V2, V4,…
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…
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…