| 1. | V test | a modification of the t test, used when the samples are large and the variance is unequal. |
| 2. | Vaginal orgasm | The female body can achieve orgasm from stimulation of the clitoris and from stimulation of the G-spot. The Gräfenberg spot, or G-spot, is a small area behind the female pubic bone More… 2.7 KB |
| 3. | Vaginismus | Painful, spasmodic contractions of the outer third of the vaginal barrel which make insertion of the penis impossible or extremely difficult, and interferes with sexual functioning. |
| 4. | Vagotomy | sectioning or cutting of the vagus nerve for medical or experimental reasons. |
| 5. | Valence | Means the intrinsic attractiveness (positive valence) or aversiveness (negative valence) of an event, object, or situation.However, the term is also used to characterize and categorize More… 0.8 KB |
| 6. | Valproate semisodium | Valproate semisodium (INN) or divalproex sodium (USAN) consists of a compound of sodium valproate and valproic acid in a 1:1 molar relationship in an enteric coated form. It is used in the More… 2.2 KB |
| 7. | Value (personal and cultural) | A personal and cultural value is a relative ethic value, an assumption upon which implementation can be extrapolated. A value system is a set of consistent values and measures. A principle More… 0.5 KB |
| 8. | Value judgment | A judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something, or of the usefulness of something, based on a personal view. As a generalization, a value judgment can refer to a judgment based upon a More… 2.3 KB |
| 9. | Value theory | Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree humans should or do value things, whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. More… 1.3 KB |
| 10. | Variable error | the deviation of a measure from the mean. Variable errors occur in either side of the mean. Their extent may be predict by the measures of dispersion, but they can not be corrected. |
| 11. | Vasily Nalimov | Vasily Nalimov, (1910 — 1997), was a Russian philosopher, humanist and wrote on Transpersonal Psychology. His main areas of research were the philosophy of probability and its biological, More… 1.4 KB |
| 12. | Vasopressin | Arginine vasopressin (AVP), also known as vasopressin, argipressin or antidiuretic hormone (ADH), is a hormone found in most mammals, including humans. Vasopressin is a peptide hormone. It More… 0.5 KB |
| 13. | Ventricle | 1- any one of the cavities within the brain that form a continuous channel for the flow of the cerebrospinal fluids. 2- one of the chambers within the heart. 3- more generally, any gavity More… 0.2 KB |
| 14. | Verificationism | A verificationist is someone who adheres to the verification principle proposed by A.J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936), a principle and criterion for meaningfulness that requires a More… 1.8 KB |
| 15. | Viktor Frankl | Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. (March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which More… 1.4 KB |
| 16. | Visual distortion test | A test of an individual's psychological reaction to the visual distortion produced by wearing a pair of glasses with lenses of +6.00 or -6.00 diopters for several minutes. The More… 0.4 KB |
| 17. | Vitalism | Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark," "energy" or "élan vital," which some equate with More… 0.7 KB |
| 18. | Voice sounds | Noises made by the mouth and adjoining structures, generated by some organisms such as humans and other mammals. In humans, messages may be conveyed via various sounds other than speech More… 0.3 KB |
| 19. | Volkmar Sigusch | Volkmar Sigusch (Jun 11, 1940) a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the More… 1.0 KB |
| 20. | Voluntary | 1- pertaining to volition. 2- pertaining to psychological or muscular processes under the direct control of the cerebral cortex. |
| 21. | Voluntary movement | 1- movement originating as a result of an intention to move. 2- movement made by the striped or straited muscles under the control of the central nervous system. |
| 22. | Voluntaryism | theory advocated by Auberon Herbert, stressing "voluntary taxation" and the boycott of electoral politics. The original sources for voluntaryism can be found in Herbert's book More… 0.5 KB |
| 23. | Von Restorff effect | The Von Restorff effect (named after Hedwig von Restorff), also called the isolation effect, predicts that an item that "stands out like a sore thumb" (known as distinctive More… 0.6 KB |
| 24. | Voodoo | Voodooism; A polytheistic religion, practiced chiefly in the west indies, in which the tradition of african cults and magic is intermingled with rites derived from Catholicism, Also known as More… 0.2 KB |
| 25. | Voyeur | one who obtains sexual gratification by watching others undress or engage in sexual activity. |