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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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General psychology
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Psychology; General psychology
In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response.
Dependent variable
Psychology; General psychology
In an experimental setting, any variable whose values are the results of changes in one or more independent variables.
Motivation
Psychology; General psychology
The process of starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities; includes mechanisms involved in preferences for one activity over another and the vigour and persistence of ...
Behaviourist perspective
Psychology; General psychology
The psychological perspective primarily concerned with observable behaviour that can be objectively recorded and with the relationships of observable behaviour to environmental stimuli.
Perception
Psychology; General psychology
The processes that organise information in the sensory image and interpret it as having been produced by properties of objects or events in the external, three-dimensional world.
Perceptual organisation
Psychology; General psychology
The processes that put sensory information together to give the perception of a coherent scene over the whole visual field.
Dream analysis
Psychology; General psychology
The psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams used to gain insight into a person's unconscious motives or conflicts.
