crutch

1. a device, usually made of metal or wood, designed to provide ambulatory support to people with disabilities or other problems affecting the lower limbs.

2. colloquially, a nonspecific coping or support mechanism, which may be of a psychological, medicinal, or other nature.

3. a learning aid.

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Psychology term of the day

May 10th 2024

object-superiority effect

in visual perception tasks, the finding that judgments about a briefly presented line are made more efficiently when the line is part of a drawing of a three-dimensional object than when it is part of a two-dimensional figure. See configural superiority effect; word-superiority effect.