Glossary I

Glossary I

intermittent explosive disorder refers to episodes during which a person acts on aggressive impulses that result in serious assaults or destruction of property.

- Intermodal (cross-modal) matching : Intermodal (cross-modal) matching refers to the ability to recognize an object initially inspected in one modality (for example; touch via another modality, such as vision.

Intermodal integration refers to the coordination or integration of information from two (2) or more senses.

Intermodal perception refers to coordination of information from different senses into a perceptual whole. Moreover, Intermodal perception is the ability to use one sensory modality to identify a stimulus or pattern of stimuli that is already familiar through another modality.

Internal aids refer to memory aids that rely on mental processes.

Internal attribution is the inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about him or her, such as the person's attitudes, character, or personality ; ascribing the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings rather than to external events.

Internal belief systems what one tells oneself about why certain things are happening

Internal carotid arteries refer to two (2) of the four (4) major arteries to the brain, supplying the anterior portions of the brain.