General psychology

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.

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.