Category: N

The concept that people who do not smoke have the right to breathe air free from smoke, especially tobacco smoke.  

A combination of letters, usually consisting of two consonants with a vowel in between, that do not form a word in the language of the person using it. Used by Effinghaus in experiments investigating memory and rote learning.  

Non-aspirin, over-the-counter analgesics.  

A condition for which there is no effective treatment.  

Techniques for conducting research, such as the study of archives and anonymous observation, that eliminate the problem of subjects’ reactivity to the experiment.  

Mental disorders in which the person’s functioning is seriously inhibited but in which thought processes are not as grossly distorted as in some of the psychotic disorders and the person recognizes the symptoms.  

Decisions that are non-planned with little structure.  

A broad category of careers that usually does not require college training.  

Any sexual activity that does not result in pregnancy or the production of offspring.  

In epidemiology, statistical techniques that can be used on nominal or ordinal data.