Category: B

Basic research Utilization of the scientific method to discover knowledge for the pure advancement of understanding with no immediate goals concerning the…

Basic needs In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the basic needs are physiological ones such as needs for oxygen, heat, food, water, and…

Basic mistrust Failure to establish a belief in the possibility of satisfying relationships in the first, oral sensory, of Erik Erikson’s eight…

Basic level category A grouping in a natural language system at the level of abstraction at which category members share the most…

Basic emotions The basic emotion theory claims that there is a core set of emotions, referred to as basic emotions, which evolved…

Base rate The naturally occurring frequency or an average of a variable in a population within a given period. This rate is…

Baseline The average of a variable over time before any experimental intervention; is used to compare with averages after intervention so as…

Basal metabolic rate The average minimal expenditure of energy of a body awake and at rest. It is measured after fasting a…

Basal ganglia Three pairs of nuclei at the base of the cerebral cortex including the caudate nuclei, putamen, and globus pallidus with…

Basal forebrain The area at the bottom of the forebrain near the hypothalamus which includes the nucleus basalis, diagonal band, medial septum,…