Psychology

Psychology

The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.

6Categories 44717Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Psychology

Become a Contributors

Psychology > General psychology

illusion

Psychology; General psychology

An experience of a stimulus pattern in a manner that is demonstrably incorrect but shared by others in the same perceptual environment.

placebo control

Psychology; General psychology

An experimental condition in which treatment is not administered; it is used in cases where a placebo effect might occur.

experience-sampling method

Psychology; General psychology

An experimental method that assists researchers in describing the typical contents of consciousness; participants are asked to record what they are feeling and thinking whenever ...

dichotic listening

Psychology; General psychology

An experimental technique in which a different auditory stimulus is simultaneously presented to each ear.

double-blind control

Psychology; General psychology

An experimental technique in which biased expectations of experimenters are eliminated by keeping both participants and experimental assistants unaware of which participants have ...

volley principle

Psychology; General psychology

An extension of frequency theory which proposes that when peaks in a sound wave come too frequently for a single neuron to fire at each peak, several neurons fire as a group at ...