| 单词 | intervening variable |
| 释义 | > as lemmasintervening variable 2. Psychology, intervening variable, a factor, such as individual memory, desire, or habit, which may affect the results of psychological tests or experiments in a way which is hard to predict. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > factor analysis > [noun] > factor affecting test intervening variable1935 1935 E. C. Tolman in Philos. Sci. 2 365 The nature of this their resulting behavior is determined by a set of intervening variables to be conceived as lying in the organism... The molar behaviorist seeks to state the intervening variables as specific types of behavior-readiness. 1951 Mind 60 50 The methodological device of the ‘intervening variable’ (drive, habit, demand, etc.). 1963 A. Pap Introd. Philos. Sci. v. xx. 383 Human behavior also has mental determinants, such factors as memories, expectations, desires, [etc.]. But since these ‘intervening variables’ were supposed to be inaccessible to scientific investigation, the tendency developed to interpret them as certain dispositions to overt behavior. < as lemmas |
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