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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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norms

Psychology; General psychology

Standards based on measurements of a large group of people; used for comparing the scores of an individual with those of others within a well-defined group.

inferential statistics

Psychology; General psychology

Statistical procedures that allow researchers to determine whether the results they obtain support their hypotheses or can be attributed just to chance variation.

descriptive statistics

Psychology; General psychology

Statistical procedures that are used to summarize sets of scores with respect to central tendencies, variability, and correlations.

discriminative stimuli

Psychology; General psychology

Stimuli that act as predictors of reinforcement, signaling when particular behaviors will result in positive reinforcement.

mnemonics

Psychology; General psychology

Strategies or devices that use familiar information during the encoding of new information to enhance subsequent access to the information in memory.

creativity

Psychology; General psychology

The ability to generate ideas or products that are both novel and appropriate to the circumstances.

orientation constancy

Psychology; General psychology

The ability to perceive the actual orientation of objects in the real world despite their varying orientation in the retinal image.

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