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101. Absolute refractory period That period immediately following the discharge of a nerve impulse during which the cell cannot be induced to fire again. See also: relative refractory period
102. Absolute savings score Difference between amount of practice required for original learning of a given task and the amount of practice required to relearn it. Sometimes savings are given as a percentage of the More… 0.3 KB
103. Absolute scale A scale that is measured in aqual intervals from an absolute zero base point.
104. Absolute sensivity 1- The minimum stimulus needed to produce a sensation.2- Degree of sensory acuity based on magnitude of the stimulus needed to evoke a response or the amount of sensation evoked by a More… 0.3 KB
105. Absolute space The great debate between defining notions of space and time as real objects themselves (absolute), or whether they are merely orderings upon actual objects (relational), began between More… 3.3 KB
106. Absolute threshold The minimum amount of sensory stimulation requires to trigger a reaction or produce a sensation. Often taken as the lowest or weakest level of stimulation detectable on 50% of trials. The More… 0.5 KB
107. Absolute true score The numerical result of a test given to 100% of individuals of a population rather than a result based on examining only a sample of that population. For instance, all recuits in the Marine More… 0.4 KB
108. Absolute truth In philosophy, universalism is a doctrine or school claiming universal facts can be discovered and is therefore understood as being in opposition to relativism. In certain religions, More… 1.7 KB
109. Absolute value The number of units that a point on a scale would deviate in any directon from the zero point.
110. Absolute zero The point an any measuring scale on which whatever is being measured cannot go down further. On the kelvin scale, 0° is the temperature at which all action ceases, at minus 273.16° Celsius. More… 0.4 KB
111. Absolute-judgment method A procedure for making judgment without respect to any criterion or comparison with anything else.
112. Absolute-refractory period/phase The brief first part of the refractory following a stimulus during which the nerve or nerve fiber will not respond to any stimulus. Corresponds to the rising phase and the initial falling More… 0.3 KB
113. Absolutism 1- The assertion that there is a reality complete in itself, not dependent in anyway on anything else; self-contained; unconditional. 2- The tendency to think in terms of absolutes, i.e of More… 0.3 KB
114. Absorbed mania A mental state in which people have concentrated their attention on inner thoughts so intensely that they have excluded themselves from reality.
115. Absorption 1- In the study of sensory processes, the capture of taking in of chemical, electromagnetic or other physical stimuli by a receptor. For example : 'Spectral absorption'.2- More… 0.4 KB
116. Absorption curve A graphic representation that shows the degree to which different wavelenghts of light are absorbed or reflected by an object.
117. Abstinence Foregoing some kind of gratification; in the area of alcohol or drug dependence, being without the substance on which the subject had been dependent.
118. Abstinence delirium A type of delirium that is a part of the withdrawal symptoms of alcoholism or drug dependence.
119. Abstinence rule In psychoanalytic theory, the primary rule that analysands should not do anything or experience anything during their analysis either pleasurable or unpleasant that could interfere with the More… 0.3 KB
120. Abstinence syndrome A term occasionally used for the full range of physiological disturbances caused by the sudden withdrawal of a drug on which one has developed a physical dependence.
121. Abstinence violation effect What happens when a person attempting to abstain from alcohol use ingests alcohol and then endures conflict and guilt by making an internal attribution to explain why he or she drank, More… 0.3 KB
122. Abstract 1- adj. From the latin for drawn away. Most usages of the term focus on qualitiesof objects, events, phenomena, etc. wich are considered separate or apart from the objects, events or More… 1.4 KB
123. Abstract ability A mental activity often taken as the hallmark of intellectual functioning; the ability to appreciate the ABSTRACT and/or symbolic aspects of situations.
124. Abstract attitude (categorical attitude) A type of cognitive functioning that includes assuming a mental set voluntarily; shifting voluntarily from a specific aspect of a situation to the general; keeping in More… 0.6 KB
125. Abstract behavior Acts in which the person not only perceives and reacts to stimuli but thinks holistically about the meaning, interrelations, and potential usefulness of such stimuli.

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