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Kurzweil Personal Reader

a computer system that reads print and outputs synthesized speech. It is intended for people who cannot read print (e.g., those with such disabilities as severe visual impairment and dyslexia). [Raymond Kurzweil (1948–  ), U.S. computer scientist and inventor]

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Psychology term of the day

March 11th 2025

transfer

transfer

1. vb. to shift or change from one location to another, one form to another, or one situation or condition to another.

2. n. the shift or change thus produced, as in transfer of training.

3. n. in Gestalt psychology, the use of the solution to one problem in solving a second problem that has elements in common with the first.