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Appeasement gesture refers to a stereotyped gesture made by a submissive animal in response to a threat gesture by a dominant animal; tends to inhibit an attack.
Appendicular skeleton refer to the appendages, or the upper and lower extremities, and the shoulder and pelvic girdles.
Appendix refers to the section of a research report, which presents detailed information that is useful but would interrupt the flow of information if presented in the body of the paper.
Apperception refers to the personal values and interests determining the mode in which an individual perceives self, others, and the world. It is a conscious experience. The mode of perceiving is "biased" by convictions ; thus, each individual has a "biased apperception" of both subjective and objective experience. The schema of biased Apperception defines the individual's phenomenological field.*
Apperceptive agnosia refers to a form of Visual agnosia in which there is an impairment of perceptual analysis of familiar objects. (see Visual agnosia)
Apperceptive Visual Agnosia refers to a visual problem with object perception as the primary difficulty.
Appetitive conditioning refers to the conditioning procedure in which the unconditioned stimulus (US) is an event that is usually considered pleasant and that an organism seeks out.