| 26. | Abasia | 1- Inaility to work because of physiological difficulties.2- A symptom of conversion hysteria characterized by loss of motor coordination leading to inability to walk or stand; normally More… 0.5 KB |
| 27. | Abasiophilia | Abasiophilia is a psychosexual attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those who use orthopaedic appliances such as leg braces, orthopedic casts, spinal braces, or More… 1.4 KB |
| 28. | Abatement | Generally, lessening deminishing. Often used with respect to pain or the symptoms of a disease or disability. |
| 29. | Abative scoring standardization | One of the three types of standardization, the other two being normative (across people) and ipsative (across the same response to different stimuli). Abative scoring standardization is used More… 0.3 KB |
| 30. | Abcissa | The horizontal coordinate of a point in a plane Cartesian coordinate system. Commonly, although strictly speaking not correctly, the term is used for the x-axis. In standard notation, values More… 0.3 KB |
| 31. | Abclution | Rejection of the established behavior paterns of the culture. |
| 32. | Abdominal reflex | Contraction of the adbominal muscles when the overlying skin is stroked lightly. |
| 33. | Abducens nerve | Cranial nerve. Carries somatic motor (general visceral efferent) fibers for control of the lateral rectus muscle of the eye. Also known as abducent nerve. |
| 34. | Abducent nerve | The VIth cranial nerve, it innervates the external rectus muscle in the eye, which functions to rotate the eyeball outward. |
| 35. | Abduction | 1.Lateral movement of a limb away from the median plane of the body. 2. Charles Sanders Peirce's term for the cognitive process whereby hypotheses are generated on the basis of some More… 0.5 KB |
| 36. | Abductive reasoning | A method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain the relevant evidence. Abductive reasoning starts from a set of accepted facts and infers their More… 2.0 KB |
| 37. | Abductor | A muscle which, upon contraction, moves a limb away from the body. |
| 38. | Abecedarian Project | (J.Sparling) A learning-games curriculum for very young children intended to help atrisk children attain their intelligence potentials by being challenged socially and intellectually.a |
| 39. | Aberdeen system | A 19th-century industrial-social movement that established a series of schools emphasizing the rights of children, family ties, and meeting the needs of the whole child and his or her More… 0.2 KB |
| 40. | Aberration | Any deviation from the normal or typical, with the implication that the deviation is wrong, unwanted, or abnormal. |
| 41. | Aberration (of light) | Failure of light rays from a point to form a single-point image on the retina after traversing an optical system. Types of aberration include: CHROMATIC, CURVATURE, LONGITUDINAL, MARGINAL, More… 0.2 KB |
| 42. | Aberration chromatic | Unequal refraction of light of defferent wavelenghts as it passes through a lens, producing a coloures image. |
| 43. | Aberration mental | A non technical term used loosely for any mental disorder. |
| 44. | Aberration spherical | Means Distortions of light waves passing through a lens produced either by the natural curvature of the lens or by irregularities in the curvature of the lens. Also called diopteric More… 0.2 KB |
| 45. | Abient behavior | Avoidant action that moves an organism away from noxious stimuli. Also known as abient drive/response. |
| 46. | Ability | The qualities, power, competence, faculties, proficiencies, dexterities, talents,etc. that enable one to perform a particular feat at a specified time. The essense of the term is that the More… 0.5 KB |
| 47. | Ability grouping | The assignment of students to levels of classes based on either actual performance, estimated learning potential, or following objective testing. |
| 48. | Ability test | Any examination designed to measure present skills on any mental or physical dimension (for example, a spelling or driving test). |
| 49. | Ability trait | A personality characteristic thought to be ralatively unchanging and enduring over time. |
| 50. | Abiogenesis | A theory of origin of living matter, that life can occur spontaneously from nonorganic material, disproved by Ferdinand Cohn. |