Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

telegraphic speech

 
Sentences in which words not 
critical to the message are left out (Module 25).

temperament

 
The innate disposition that 
emerges early in life (Modules 37, 41).

teratogens

 
Environmental agents such as a 
drug, chemical, virus, or other factor that 
produce a birth defect (Module 36).

terminal buttons

 
Small bulges at the end of 
axons that send messages to other neurons 
(Module 7).

test standardization

 
A technique used to vali-
date questions in personality tests by studying 
the responses of people with known diagnoses 
(Module 42).

thalamus

 
The part of the brain located in the 
middle of the central core that acts primarily to 
relay information about the senses (Module 9).

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

 
A test 
consisting of a series of pictures about which a 
person is asked to write a story (Module 42).

theories

 
Broad explanations and predictions 
concerning phenomena of interest (Module 4).

theory of multiple intelligences

 
Gardner’s 
intelligence theory that proposes that there 
are eight distinct spheres of intelligence 
(Module 26).

thinking

 
The manipulation of mental represen-
tations of information (Module 23).

tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

 
The inability to 
recall information that one realizes one knows—
a result of the diffi culty of retrieving informa-
tion from long-term memory (Module 21).