Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs(also: Maslow's Hierarchy, Hierarchy of Needs)
- A motivational theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow that organises human needs into a hierarchical pyramid, from basic physiological needs at the base through safety, social belonging, esteem, and self-actualisation at the top. The theory proposes that lower-level…
- Metacognition(also: Thinking About Thinking, Meta-Cognitive Awareness)
- The awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, including the ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate one's cognitive strategies during learning or problem-solving. In accessibility, supporting metacognition through design means providing tools and cues that help…
- Multiple Resource Theory(also: Wickens Multiple Resource Model)
- A cognitive psychology theory proposed by Christopher Wickens that explains how humans allocate attention across concurrent tasks. The theory posits that humans have separate pools of cognitive resources for different modalities (visual vs. auditory), processing stages…
- Musical Emotion(also: Music-Induced Emotion, Emotional Response to Music)
- The emotional content perceived in, or felt in response to, a piece of music, typically analysed along dimensions such as valence and arousal or via categorical labels (cheerful, tense, calm, sad, energetic, love, dreamy). Musical emotion arises from low-level acoustic…
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