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LABELING THEORY

Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called

FIELD DEPENDENCE

cognitive style where the person relies on external cues rather than internal cues. These people are susceptible to deceptive cues

FORGETTING

the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.

FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS

a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration

GENERALIZATION

1. Deriving a concept or theory from a number of specific cases, applying it widely. 2. Judgement derived and applied

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

an approach where people or information using more than one discipline will collaborate and obtain more detailed information about a

INVARIANT FEATURE

An object that does not change or its characteristic when the object is viewed under different circumstances. Features that are

LATENT INHIBITION

The impedance of Pavlovian conditioning resulting from prior exposures with a conditioned stimulus before being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

FIELD EXPERIMENT

an experiment that is not conducted inside a laboratory but is done outside in the real world setting. Participants are

FORMATIVE EVALUATION

the name of the process that is concerned with helping to improve or guide the development of a program through

FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON

a person with a healthy personality, who experiences freedom of choice and action, is creative, exhibits the qualities of existential

GENETICS

The branch of biology concerning the mechanisms and phenomena of heredity and the laws that determine inherited traits. See behavior

INTERNAL BOUNDARY

Psychoanalytic theory. The name of the boundary between ego and id. Also called inner boundary. Compare external boundary.

INVENTORY

In form of a question, it describes a behaviour and the studying or it, interests and attitudes, it is a

FIELD NOTES

These are the notes that are taken when out in the field and observing an experiment or a phenomenon. They

FRAMING EFFECT

1. See atmosphere effect. 2. See framing.

FUNCTION

1. Use or purpose of a thing. 2. Biology. Action of an organism contributing to its fitness. 3. Mathematical procedure

GESTURE

1. this is a movement that can indicate a meaning or attitude. A wave is an example. See non-verbal behaviour.

INTERPERSONAL

the term that deals with the actions, events and feelings that exists between 2 or more people.

INVERTED-U HYPOTHESIS

Performance and motivation and the proposed correlation between them, the performance is poorest when motivation or arousal at very high