Category: O

One of the criteria for evaluating the scientific merit of observations. All subjective judgments are avoided and all descriptive statements are made in a manner that is objectively verifiable.  

One of three major systems of rules and principles that guides persons in making value judgments holds that one perfect set of values exists, which is binding to all persons in all places at all times and is not subject to change.  

Tests that take the form of questionnaires or rating scales, projective tests of personality.  

An evaluation instrument that is consistently scored in the same manner each time it is used.  

A test yielding results that can be scored by anyone with like outcomes. A type of test that is designed to be presented equally to all, regardless of who administers the test. The administrator follows a “script” in introducing the test and presenting the specific questions. Scoring does not depend on the administrator’s discretion and…

A perception of self often accompanied by feelings of anxiety over meeting standards.  

A belief that the magnitude of an offense can be judged solely by the magnitude of its consequences regardless of the intensions of the offender.  

In moral judgment, judging an act as good or bad on the basis of its consequences, subjective moral reasoning.  

In psychoanalytic theory, the ego’s reaction to danger, the same as realistic fear.  

A sexually arousing inanimate object.