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General psychology
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General psychology
Selective optimization with compensation
Psychology; General psychology
A strategy for successful ageing in which one makes the most of gains while minimising the impact of losses that accompany normal aging.
Heritability estimate
Psychology; General psychology
A statistical estimate of the degree of inheritance of a given trait or behavior, assessed by the degree of similarity between individuals who vary in their extent of genetic similarity.
Confounding variable
Psychology; General psychology
A stimulus other than the variable an experimenter explicitly introduces into a research setting that affects a participant's behavior.
Measures of variability
Psychology; General psychology
A statistic, such as a range or standard deviation, that indicates how tightly the scores in a set of observations cluster together.
Correlation coefficient
Psychology; General psychology
A statistic that indicates the degree of relationship between two variables.
Algorithm
Psychology; General psychology
A step-by-step procedure that always provides the right answer for a particular type of problem.
Attention
Psychology; General psychology
A state of focused awareness on a subset of the available perceptual information.
