SCIENTIST-PRACTITIONER MODEL
Principle for the graduate instruction of doctoral clinical (or various other applied) psychology professionals in the US, which is designed…
SECONDARY REWARD
Positive reinforcement associated with fulfillment of a biological need. Signals which correlate with a primary reward.
SELECTIVE INATTENTION
Act of ignoring or otherwise screening out of stimuli that are threatening, anxiety-producing, or felt to be unimportant. Conscious or…
PRIMARY MEMORY (PM)
A former description of what is now referred to as short-term memory, Primary Memory refers to memory that retains data…
PROATTITUDINAL BEHAVIOR
Proattitudinal behavior is behavior that reflects and is in agreement with a held attitude. For example, if one dislikes a…
PRODUCTIVE THINKING
A theory, first formulated by Erich Fromm, which describes thinking in which a given question is regarded carefully utilizing objectivity…
PROSPECTIVE MEMORY
The memory that describes awareness and memory to do some act in the future, such as get gas before the…
PSYCHOMETRIC THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE
Theories of intelligence arrived at after examination and absorption of test results. These tests vary but could include verbal analogies…
PUBLIC TERRITORY
A social psychology term for a public space temporarily in use by an individual or group. For instance, the area…
RACIAL MEMORY
Cognitive thought patterns, emotions and experiences believed to be transmitted from generation to generation. These factors are believed by those…
RATIONALISM N 1
A philosophy that holds the following to be true: 1. It is possible to gain knowledge of reality by reason…
RECIPROCITY
Reciprocity is the act, process or situation in which one person has received a benefit from another and in return…
REFERENCE GROUP
Concept which refers to a group with which another group or individual is compared. In sociology, a group that subjects…
REINFORCEMENT THEORY
Any approach which is constructed to detail the system of reinforcement.
REMEMBERING
To recall with effort or think of again. To retain information in memory. Spontaneously recalling information stored in the memory.
REPRODUCTION
Biologically, production of new individuals from parental entities in perpetuation of the species. May be sexual or asexual in nature.
RESPONSE RATE
Measure of the amount of responses which take place during a particular time period. Also known as: response frequency.