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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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Gender
Psychology; General psychology
A psychological phenomenon that refers to learned sex-related behaviours and attitudes of males and females.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Psychology; General psychology
A recording of the electrical activity of the brain.
Experience-sampling method
Psychology; General psychology
An experimental method that assists researchers in describing the typical contents of consciousness; participants are asked to record what they are feeling and thinking whenever signalled to do so.
Volley principle
Psychology; General psychology
An extension of frequency theory which proposes that when peaks in a sound wave come too frequently for a single neuron to fire at each peak, several neurons fire as a group at the frequency of the ...
Double-blind control
Psychology; General psychology
An experimental technique in which biassed expectations of experimenters are eliminated by keeping both participants and experimental assistants unaware of which participants have received which ...
Placebo control
Psychology; General psychology
An experimental condition in which treatment is not administered; it is used in cases where a placebo effect might occur.
Induced motion
Psychology; General psychology
An illusion in which a stationary point of light within a moving reference frame is seen as moving and the reference frame is perceived as stationary.
