Category: A
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Attitude salience
An awareness of an attitude toward any of a variety of objects.
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Attitude polarization
A situation in which an attitude becomes more positive when initially positive, and more negative when initially negative.
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Attitude-discrepant behavior
Actions that are inconsistent with a person’s attitudes q.v. and that may prompt a person to change attitudes.
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Attestation
In law, the act of witnessing a will by its maker and becoming a signature to the completed will.
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Attentional processes
One of the four stages to observational learning influenced by one’s needs and desires and the attractiveness of the model activity being observed.
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Attention-placebo condition
A study in which the client receives a believable treatment containing many of the nonspecific aspects of the active therapy, but does not receive the supposedly active therapeutic ingredient.
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Attending physician
A medical doctor who directs a patient’s care during a hospital confinement. The physician legally responsible for the care given a patient in a hospital or other health program. Usually the private physician of a private patient who is also responsible for the patient is typically chosen by the hospital upon the patient’s admission from…
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Attendance center
In education, an administrative unit consisting of the region from which learners may attend a given school building.
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Attempted rape
In law, an effort to commit forcible rape in which the male does not effect penetration.
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Attack mechanism
A form of defense mechanism or adjustment mechanism.