| 176. | Accessible | Receptive or responsive to other persons or external influences (for example : a patient who responds to a therapist in a manner that facilitates the development of rapport). |
| 177. | Accessory nerve | Cranial nerve XI. It has two components. The cranial portion joins the vagus nerve and supplies the muscles of the larynx. Fibers in this portion are classified as special visceral efferent. More… 0.5 KB |
| 178. | Accessory parts | all parts of sense organs except the receptor cells themselves. Accessory parts contribute to the more effective functioning of sense organs. |
| 179. | Accident prone | A term loosely used to describe persons who display a somewhat higher than average rate of accidents, Such individuals may indeed contribute to their high accident rate by any number of More… 0.3 KB |
| 180. | Accident-proneness | Susceptibility to accidents based on psychological causes or motivations, usually unconscious. |
| 181. | Accidental error | Error in measurement that results from variable and unknown causes and can neither be predicted nor controlled. If it is assumed that all measurement is the best estimate of the true value. More… 0.3 KB |
| 182. | Accidentalism | it is used for any system of thought which denies the causal nexus and maintains that events succeed one another haphazardly or by chance (not in the mathematical but in the popular sense). More… 0.5 KB |
| 183. | Accommodation | Generally, any movement or adjustment, either physical or psychological, which is made in preparation for incoming stimuli. This is a very rich concept and there are several specific uses, More… 0.9 KB |
| 184. | Accreditation | Official certification that established standards have been met, such as the process by which hospitals and health facilities are surveyed and approved by the Joint Commission on More… 0.2 KB |
| 185. | Accretion | 1- In environmental psychology, the accumulation of objects or material in the environment (for example, littering), which may be a measure of the degree of individual responsibility of More… 0.5 KB |
| 186. | Acculturation | 1- With reference to children the term refers to the gradual acquisition of the behaviour patterns of the surrounding culture, in particular the subculture within which they are rised. This More… 0.4 KB |
| 187. | Acculturation difficulty | A problem in adapting to or finding an appropriate way to adapt to a different culture or environment. The problem is not based on any coexisting mental disorder. |
| 188. | Accuracy test | 1- A task scored for correctness of answers and not for other criteria such as speed. 2- An examinationof abilities with the score based on errors made, usually with either no time limùits More… 0.2 KB |
| 189. | Accurate empathic understanding | In client-centered therapy, an essential quality of the therapist, referring to the ability to see the world through the client’s phenomenology as well as from perspectives of which the More… 0.4 KB |
| 190. | Acenesthesia | The lack of common sensation. Hence, either: 1- A general lack of well being or 2- a lack of normal sense concerning one's body. |
| 191. | Acetylcholine | 1- A neurotransmitter in the brain, where it helps to regulate memory, and in the peripheral nervous system, where it controls the actions of skeletal and smooth muscle. 2- A More… 0.5 KB |
| 192. | Acetylcholine (ACh) | An excitatory Neurotransmitter found in a variety liberated at the neuromuscular junctions of all skeletal muscles, it's also the neurotransmitter in the ganglia of the Autonomic More… 0.4 KB |
| 193. | Acetylcholinesterase | Acetylcholinesterase, also called AChE, is an enzyme that degrades (through its hydrolytic activity) the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, producing choline and an acetate group. It is mainly More… 1.0 KB |
| 194. | Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) | An enzyme produced by the post-synaptic membrane that destroys Acetylcholine by breaking it into acetate and coline, thus stopping the post-synaptic potential. |
| 195. | Achievement | 1- accomplishment or attainment. 2- that which has been attained. 3- a specified level of success on a learning task or a certain level of proficiency in scholastic or academic work. More… 0.5 KB |
| 196. | Achievement motivation | is the tendency to persist at tasks that may be difficult or challenging for the individual. Differences in achievement motivation enable us to explain why less intelligent children may More… 0.3 KB |
| 197. | Achievement motive | 1- Generally, a personal motive manifested as a striving for success; quite literally, a motive to achieve.2- In H. Murray's theory of personality, the term has a similar meaning but is More… 0.3 KB |
| 198. | Achievement test | An achievement test is a test of developed skill or knowledge. The most common type of achievement test is a standardized test developed to measure skills and knowledge learned in a given More… 1.8 KB |
| 199. | Achievement, level of | The degree to which one has achieved on a standardized test. Used primarily in studies of education. |
| 200. | Achromatic | 1- Without colour, in the sense of the dimensions of hue and saturation. Hence, thge term refers to visual stimuli which are describable solely in terms of brightness in the black-white More… 0.3 KB |
