Month: December 2020

Tests allowing relatively free responses to situations, requiring interpretations on the assumption that the nature of the interpretations reveals the important aspects of a person’s personality projective techniques.  

Devices for assessing personality by presenting relatively unstructured stimuli that elicit subjective responses. Any one of several forms of psychological assessment or evaluation. Using ambiguous activities and tasks which encourage self-expression, the products or results and the individual’s verbalizations about them are evaluated and interpreted to determine indications of unconscious needs, thoughts, or concerns.  

Play that a psychologist uses for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.  

Regions of the cortex that serve as receiving stations for sensory information or as dispatching stations for motor commands, motor projection areas; sensory projection areas.  

Forbidding a certain act.  

An educational philosophy that emphasizes experiences.  

Muscular strength exercises that use traditional barbells and dumbbells with fixed resistance.  

A system of physical and mental relaxation in which portions of the body are relaxed one by one causing the mind to relax at the same time. Progressive relaxation is a series of exercises designed by the physician Edmund Jacobson for his tense patients. The method emphasizes the relaxation of the voluntary skeletal muscles by…

An educational philosophy emphasizing democracy and the importance of creatively meeting the unique needs of individual students and the relationship between school and community.  

A series of disciplinary actions, usually beginning with a verbal warning, progressively followed by more severe penalties.