| 1. | Availability cascade | Is a self-reinforcing cycle that explains the development of certain kinds of collective belief. A novel idea or insight, usually one that seems to explain a complex process in a simple or More… 1.6 KB |
| 2. | Availability heuristic | Is a phenomenon (which can result in a cognitive bias) in which people base their prediction of the frequency of an event or the proportion within a population based on how easily an example More… 3.3 KB |
| 3. | Averroes | better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد), and in European literature as Averroes (1126 – Dec 10, 1198), was an Andalusian polymath: a master of early Islamic philosophy, Islamic More… 26.2 KB |
| 4. | Aversion therapy | 1- A behavior therapy procedure in which stimuli associated with undesirable behavior are paired with a painful or unpleasant stimulus, resulting in the suppression of the undesirable More… 0.4 KB |
| 5. | Aversive classical conditioning | Pairing of alcohol with a substance that will interact with it to cause nausea or vomiting (such as disulfiram) in order to make alcohol itself a conditioned stimulus to be avoided. |
| 6. | Aversive conditioning | Process believed to underlie the effectiveness of aversion therapy. |
| 7. | Aversive racism | Attitudes toward members of a racial group that incorporate both egalitarian social values and negative emotions, causing one to avoid interaction with members of the group. |
| 8. | Aviation Psychologist insignia | The Aerospace Experimental Psychologist insignia is a military badge of the United States Navy which is issued to those members of the Navy Medical Service Corps who have been qualified as More… 1.2 KB |
| 9. | Avicenna | known as Abu Ali Sina Balkhi (Persian: ابوعلی سینا بلخى) or Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا) and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek: Aβιτζιανός),(born c. 980 near More… 25.6 KB |
| 10. | Avoidance conditioning | Learning to move away from a stimulus that has previously been paired with an aversive stimulus such as electric shock. |
| 11. | Avoidance gradient | Refers to the tendency to more rapidly move away from a goal with a negative valence, the closer the organism is to the goal. |
| 12. | Avoidance learning | An experimental procedure in which a neutral stimulus is paired with an unpleasant one so that the organism learns to avoid the previously neutral stimulus. |
| 13. | Avoidant disorder | 1- Social phobia occurring in childhood and adolescence. 2- In childhood or adolescence, a persistent shrinking from strangers and from peers, despite a clear desire for affection, to More… 0.3 KB |
| 14. | Avoidant personality | 1- Pervasive anxiety, sense of inadequacy, and fear of being criticized, that leads to the avoidance of most social interactions with others and to restraint and nervousness in social More… 0.4 KB |
| 15. | Avoidant personality disorder | Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) (or Anxious personality disorder) is a personality disorder recognized in the DSM handbook, characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, More… 2.2 KB |
| 16. | Avolition | 1- Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy. 2- A negative symptom of More… 0.3 KB |
| 17. | Avram Noam Chomsky | is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the More… 2.5 KB |
