General psychology

General psychology

Information concerning Psychology in general.

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Date rape

Psychology; General psychology

Unwanted sexual violation by a social acquaintance in the context of a consensual dating situation.

Serial processes

Psychology; General psychology

Two or more mental processes that are carried out in order, one after the other.

Transduction

Psychology; General psychology

Transformation of one form of energy into another; for example, light is transformed into neural impulses.

Parallel processes

Psychology; General psychology

Two or more mental processes that are carried out simultaneously.

Meditation

Psychology; General psychology

A form of consciousness alteration designed to enhance self-knowledge and well-being through reduced self-awareness.

A determinant of why people select some parts of sensory input for further processing; occurs when features of stimuli—objects in the environment—automatically capture attention, independent of the ...

Significant difference

Psychology; General psychology

A difference between experimental groups or conditions that would have occurred by chance less than an accepted criterion; in psychology, the criterion most often used is a probability of less than 5 ...