criterion score

1. a score on a variable that serves as a standard against which other scores may be judged in a criterion-referenced test.

2. in regression analysis, a predicted score on an attribute or variable.

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May 9th 2024

divided consciousness

Ernest R. Hilgard’s characterization of dissociation as a state in which one stream of mental activity (e.g., perception, memory, planning) proceeds outside of phenomenal awareness and apparently outside of voluntary control. In his neodissociation theory, Hilgard proposed that this state could be best studied through hypnosis. See also coconsciousness; unity of consciousness.