Glossary I
Glossary I
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 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 cause is a cause of behavior assumed to lie within a person, for instance, a need, preference, or personality trait.
Internal consistency refers to the extent to which test items are interrelated and thus appear to measure the same construct.
Internal consistency reliability refers to the extent to which the items of a test "hang together" most usually assessed by computing Cronbach's alpha