Glossary I

Glossary I

Indigent means lacking necessities of life, such as food, clothing, etc.; impoverished. Indigent also refers to a person who is extremely poor.

Indirect approach to perception refers to the idea that perception results from the interpretation of sensations.

Indirect calorimetry is the estimation of heat or energy production on the basis of oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, and nitrogen excretion.

Indirect control refers to a behavioral influence that arises from an individual's identification with non-criminals and his or her Desire to conform to societal norms.

Indirect requests the making of a requests without doing so straightforwardly

Indirect scaling is defined as the psychological scale that is built up indirectly by putting successive just-noticeable difference units in a row

Indirect sound refers to sound that reaches the ears after being reflected from a surface such as a room’s walls.

Indirect speech acts refer to a speech act in which the literal utterance meaning is not the same as the speaker's meaning.