Archive for the 'Dictionary of Psychology' Category

Definitions of terms related to Special Education

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Special Education is commonly known as education of physically or mentally impaired children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom.
Disability, Impairment, and Handicap:
Disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness. The International labor organization defines it as “any activity restriction that prevents an individual [...]

Statistical Analysis by Computer | SPSS

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

SPSS Software
In early days of computing, the late 1940s and early 1950s, researchers wrote their own statistical programes. Commertial software for statistical work eventually appeared. BMDP, SAS, and SPSS all trace their ancestry back to the days when the computers were monster sized. Vastly improved , these packages are now available on diffrent versions [...]

Dictionary of Psychology | Defination of Psychological Terms | Glossary of psychological terms

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

A-B-A design Experimental design in which participants first experience the baseline condition (A), then experience the experimental treatment (B), and then return to the baseline (A).
Abnormal psychology The area of psychological investigation concerned with understanding the nature of individual pathologies of mind, mood, and behavior.
Absolute threshold The minimum amount of physical energy needed to produce [...]