GENERAL ABILITY TESTS
These tests are designed to measure the general factor of intelligence. They usually require, among other things, understanding and applying…
GENERATION EFFECT
effect that memory for items to be remembered in an experiment is enhanced if the participants help to generate the…
GENITALITY
the term that is used for the capacity of a person to experience erotic sensation in the genital organs, starting…
GIFTEDNESS
the state of a person who has a large amount of natural ability or talent in something that is seen…
GOAL ORIENTATION
1. Tendency for a person to physically and mentally position themselves toward their goal. 2. Characteristic of a person tending…
GUIDED PARTICIPATION
Process where the influence of social partners and social cultural practices combine to give support and direction to children and…
INTERITEM RELIABILITY
the internal consistency reliability. Indexed 2 ways. 1. Average intercorrelation of objects with each other. 2. Reliability of the mean…
INTERSCORER RELIABILITY
Consistency reliability which is internal and among individuals of two or more and the scoring responses of examinees. See also…
INTRAPSYCHIC
Ideas, conflicts, pertaining to impulses or other phenomena that is psychological and arises or occurs within the mind or psyche
JAPANESE MANAGEMENT
management style in Japan in the 1980s stressing continuous improvement in quality, cnsensus decision making and acute inventory systems
JUST-WORLD PHENOMENON
To believe that events proceed rationally and not by chance, such an attitude may result in the belief that the…
KOHLBERG'S THEORY
Broadly speaking the morally developed individual moves from a selfish concern with rewards and punishment through a reliance on fixed…
LATENCY OF RESPONSE
The messure of time that occurs from the introduction of a stimulus and the following response or reaction time. Common…
EXTRAVERSION (EXTROVERSION)
is supposedly observed in those with external loci of identities, where the orientation of their energies and interests are focussed…
FACTOR THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE
is one of the many theories which argue the existance of various factors which affect an individual's intelligence. These factors…
FALSE-ALARM RATE
is the number or proportion of incorrect answers such as "Yes" or "No" given as final responses to tasks within…
FATE NEUROSIS
with respect to psychoanalytic theory, fate neurosis is a compulsive and unconscious need to arrange life events in a specific…