Category: M

Programs utilizing mentors to improve the performance of students or faculty.  

The surgical procedure to change the shape of the chin. Cosmetic surgery designed to enhance the appearance of the chin.  

Control over everyday life and successful adaptation to stress.  

A student whose mental capacity lacks maturity or is so deficient as to hinder normal achievement.  

A scientific discipline primarily concerned with healthful personality development and the prevention of psychiatric disorders, mental health. The science of developing and maintaining mental health and preventing mental illness.  

The inability for a person to cope adequately and appropriately with life. All forms of illness in which psychological, intellectual, emotional or behavioral disturbances are the dominating feature. The term is relative and variable in different cultures, schools of thought and definitions. It includes a wide range of types (such as psychic and physical, neurotic…

A mental disorder0 associated with an organic or functional disease of the nervous system.  

Mental retardation. A former term for learning disability.  

A test that measures an individual’s ability to comprehend and rapidly indentify verbal, mathematical, and visual symbols.  

A test measuring general learning ability. Used to measure potential for success in education or in career choice.