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General psychology
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reinforcement contingency
Psychology; General psychology
A consistent relationship between a response and the changes in the environment that it produces.
chronic stress
Psychology; General psychology
A continuous state of arousal in which an individual perceives demands as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them.
Yerkes–Dodson law
Psychology; General psychology
A correlation between task performance and optimal level of arousal.
operational definition
Psychology; General psychology
A definition of a variable or condition in terms of the specific operation or procedure used to determine its presence.
goal-directed selection
Psychology; General psychology
A determinant of why people select some parts of sensory input for further processing; it reflects the choices made as a function of one's own goals.
stimulus-driven capture
Psychology; General psychology
A determinant of why people select some parts of sensory input for further processing; occurs when features of stimuli—objects in the environment—automatically capture attention, independent of the ...
significant difference
Psychology; General psychology
A difference between experimental groups or conditions that would have occurred by chance less than an accepted criterion; in psychology, the criterion most often used is a probability of less than 5 ...
