GROUP DYNAMICS
1. Dynamic and not static processes of a group affecting patterns and changes in communication, decisions and power. 2. Psychology.…
GUSTATORY SYSTEM
all of the primary structures that are involved with detection and responses to taste and eating. Includes taste buds, papillae,…
INTERNAL CONSISTENCY
term used to describe the degree to which all the items on a test measure the same thing.
INTERSPECIES INTERACTION
Interactions between species and all forms of it. Interactions that are long term and include parasitism, which is one species…
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
A specific activity with an incentive to engage and is derived from the activity itself (e.g. a genuine interest in…
INVOLUNTARY ERRORS
Knowing they are mistakes and errors that are made in spite of this, a slip of the tongue and and…
JOB DESCRIPTIVE INDEX (JI)I)
a 72-item instrument measuring employees' attitudes in areas such as work, pay, supervision, promotions and coworkers.
KENNARD PRINCIPLE
This principle that brain damage sustained early in life is less debilitating that brain damage sustained in later life, presumably…
LATENT TRAIT THEORY
A model for the design of instruments used in observing traits or testing unobservable traits. The preferred method of developing…
EXTRINSIC REINFORCER
is the binary opposite to an intrinsic reinforcer. An extrinsic reinforcer is directly related to the reward which stems from…
FACIAL ACTION CODING SYSTEM (FACS)
involves classifying (FACS is a coding system) facial expressions using the movements of particular facial muscles, examples including the orbicularis…
FACTORIAL DESIGN
is one of the many experimental designs used in psychological experiments where two or more independent variables are simultaneously manipulated…
FALSIFIABILITY
was first argued by Austria-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) as one of the staple canons of the…
FEAR RESPONSE
is a general term used to describe the range of movements which organisms will undertake when responding to a threat.…
FICTIONAL FINALISM
Psychoanalytic theory of Alfred Adler. The belief that human beings are more strongly motivated by the goals and ideals that…
FINITE-STATE GRAMMAR
Noam Chomsky in 1957, proposed that grammar generated a sentence one unit at a time in a sequence from left…
FLOOR EFFECT
the inability of a test to measure or discriminate below a certain point, usually because its items are too difficult.…
FOOD ADDICTION
the name given to an eating disturbance where a person is preoccupied with weight, body image and food. Food is…
FORMAL LOGIC
the name given to the system of prescribed rules for generating valid conclusions or predictions from initial axiomatic assumptions or…