Category: O

In education, structured methods for observing various aspects of a particular class or the entire school.  

A study in which the investigator does not manipulate any of the variables but simply observes their relationships as they occur. A type of study in which individuals are observed or certain outcomes are measured. No attempt is made to affect the outcome (for example, no treatment is given).  

A research technique in which people observe and describe subjects’ behavior.  

Modeling as related to social learning theory.  

Behavior that can be evaluated during or immediately after the learning experience, or when the learner uses what is learned in a later life situation is the overt behavior of the individual toward various aspects of the environment that affect health.  

Something offensive to modesty or decency, often sexually related.  

A variant sexual behavior in which there is anonymous telephone communication involving lewd language.  

Disgusting, repulsive, filthy, shocking.  

A fracture that runs obliquely to the axis of the bone. A fracture in which the bone is broken diagonally. A slanting-angle break in bone.  

Refers to the parent-child relationship in which the parent functions as an object of admiration and a role model for the child.