INTERVENING VARIABLE
1. Is an entity and hypothetical and is influenced by an independent variable and influences in turn a variable dependent.…
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
FREE ASSOCIATION
the basic process in psychoanalysis and other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy where patients are encouraged to verbalise freely whatever thoughts…
FUNCTIONAL
1.Psychology. Denoting or referring to a disorder where normal behavior changes without an observable organic or structural cause. 2. Generally,…
GENERAL MEDICAL CONDITION
the name of a disorder that has known physical causes and observable physical psycho
INTERVENTION RESEARCH
Activities designed to measure how much better a situation is after modification that is systematic and to measure or has…
JOHN HENRY EFFECT
an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FIELD DEPENDENCE
cognitive style where the person relies on external cues rather than internal cues. These people are susceptible to deceptive cues…
FUNCTIONAL AGE
term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to…
GENERALIZABILITY
the term that applies to the accuracy with which results or findings can be transferred to situations or people other…
GROUP SOLIDARITY
The sense of fellowship and community displayed by members of a collective who are united by shared purposes, responsibilities and…
EXTRAPUNITIVE
with respect to reactive measures, can be actions which are directed at an individual who is perceived to be the…
FIELD EXPERIMENT
an experiment that is not conducted inside a laboratory but is done outside in the real world setting. Participants are…
FREE-FLOATING ATTENTION
Found in psychoanalysis and in other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the analyst's or therapist's state of evenly suspended attention during…