Category: U

Established as a result of the passage of the Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972. The Commission is concerned with reducing injuries associated with consumer products used in the home, schools, and recreational areas. Its authority was expanded by enactment of the Federal Hazardous Substance Act, Flammable Fabrics Act, Poison Prevention Packaging Act, and Refrigerator…

A curricular framework in which a program or subject is divided into various segments or building blocks of study.  

Those functional traits that make a person recognizably different from other persons, personality; ideographic characteristics nomothetic.  

A term applied to an individual who has experienced episodes of clinical depression but not mania.  

An affective disorder in which there is no sudden or dramatic swings between emotional extremes.  

Single units.  

A company or other workplace that operates under a contract between a union and management. New employees are required to join the union within a specified period of time.  

A person not acceptable for insurance coverage because he or she is an excessive risk.  

Schools in which students’ progress is based on their ability rather than their chronological age.  

The first phase of Lewin’s three-part process of change. Learning occurs when a person can make an informed choice of whether to change an existing behavior. The learning, or change, process that leads to an informed choice is based on previous attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and creating receptivity to new knowledge that may provide the…