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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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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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