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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) refers to a Communication System which supplements, or in some cases, replaces the use of natural speech.
Augmenting Principle is a term used to refer to the tendency to attach greater importance to a potential cause of Behavior if the Behavior occurs despite the presence of other, inhibitory causes.
Moreover, Augmenting Principle is a term used when making attributions, people tend to decide that behavior must be due to a dispositional cause when a person behaves in a manner that is inconsistent with the requirements of the situation.
Auguste Ambroise Liebeault (1823 to 1904) refers to the founder of the Nancy school of hypnotism.
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857) : Auguste Comte refers to the founder of Positivism and coiner of the term Sociology. He felt that cultures passed through three stages in the way they explained phenomena: the theological, the metaphysical, and the scientific.
Authentic assessment refers to evaluation based on real performance, rather than test performance, showing mastery of a task