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Psychology
The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.
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Availability heuristic
Psychology; General psychology
Judging the frequency or probability of events based on their availability in memory. Events that are remembered more easily are judged as being more frequent or probable than ...
Illusory correlations
Psychology; General psychology
Occur when a correlation between two events appears to exist, but in reality there is no correlation or it’s much weaker than it is assumed to be.
Representativeness heuristic
Psychology; General psychology
Judging the probability that something belongs to a category based on how well it represents or matches that category. • Based on similarity and prototypicality • Judgment fails ...
Linguistic determinism
Psychology; General psychology
Language determines or influences the way that a person thinks or perceives the world. Also called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Evidence comes from studies of color categorization ...
Modularity hypothesis
Psychology; General psychology
Language and thought are represented and processed by separate modules in the mind • Module is an informationally encapsulated, domain-specific system. • Language and thought ...
Phoneme
Psychology; General psychology
Shortest segment of speech that, if changed, can change the meaning of a word • About 47 different phonemes in English • Languages have different phonemes • Example: “bit” has ...
Morpheme
Psychology; General psychology
Smallest meaningful unit of language • Meaning can be grammatical (e.g., suffix) • About 50,000 to 80,000 in English • Morpheme does not correspond to number of phonemes or ...
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)