GRADIENT OF TEXTURE
the term that applies to the progressively finer appearance of textures and surface grains of objects as the viewer moves…
GROUP SOCIALIZATION THEORY
Theory of development of personality where children are socialised by peers and influence from adults filters down to the peer…
INTERDEPENDENT SELF-CONSTRUAL
View of the self that emphasises a person's embeddedness in a network of social relationships and downplays their unique traits…
INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE
The distance that people choose to keep between themselves and other people. The distance is smaller for friends and relatives…
INTERVIEWER EFFECTS
An interviewers attributes and the influence and behaviours on the answers of a respondant. The appearance, demeanor, training, age, sex…
INTRUJECTIVE DEPRESSION
Individuals who are depressed and have angry and punitive feelings toward themselves. Compare anaclitic depression
ISOTRETINOIN
an analog of vitamin A used for fighting acne, which is resistant to other therapies. Controversially the use of isotretinoin…
JOHN HENRY EFFECT
an effect in which competitiveness between a control group and an experiment group to rivalry efforts that disturb the experiment.
KINESTHETIC RECEPTOR
Found in muscles, tendons and joints and any of the sensory receptors that monitor the position and movement of muscles
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
The term is preferred by those who emphasize the active role of the child as a learner with considerable innate…
EYE-VOICE SPAN
is similar to reading span, in that the eye-voice span, when reading aloud, is the physical distance (relative to a…
FACT MEMORY
is considered the binary opposite to source memory, where it is memory for a specific fact (see facual knowledge for…
FALSE AUTHORITY
is one of the assumptive techniques, typically found in business, where an expert in one area of society is assumed…
FAMILY ROMANCE
is according to Sigmund Freud the result of an over or under developed oedipus complex where the child believes they…
FEEDBACK LOOP
In cybernetic theory, this is a self-regulatory model that determines whether the current operation of a system is acceptable and,…
FIELD RESEARCH
the term that is used to describe any research that is undertaken outside a laboratory and in a natural, social…
FOCAL ATTENTION
name given to the attention we focus on a certain stimuli while disregarding the rest. Information in our attention span…