phoria

n. the position of the two eyes when a target is viewed binocularly and appears as a single image. The term is most commonly used as part of compound words to describe changes in eye position that occur when images from the two eyes cannot be fused, such as esophoria and exophoria.

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Psychology term of the day

January 23rd 2025

analogies test

a test of the participant’s ability to comprehend the relationship between two items and then extend that relationship to a different situation: For example, paintbrush is to paint as pen is to ___.