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General psychology
Information concerning Psychology in general.
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General psychology
Episodic memories
Psychology; General psychology
Long-term memories for autobiographical events and the contexts in which they occurred.
Discriminative stimuli
Psychology; General psychology
Stimuli that act as predictors of reinforcement, signalling when particular behaviours will result in positive reinforcement.
Inferential statistics
Psychology; General psychology
Statistical procedures that allow researchers to determine whether the results they obtain support their hypotheses or can be attributed just to chance variation.
Descriptive statistics
Psychology; General psychology
Statistical procedures that are used to summarise sets of scores with respect to central tendencies, variability, and correlations.
Norms
Psychology; General psychology
Standards based on measurements of a large group of people; used for comparing the scores of an individual with those of others within a well-defined group.
Orientation constancy
Psychology; General psychology
The ability to perceive the actual orientation of objects in the real world despite their varying orientation in the retinal image.
Mnemonics
Psychology; General psychology
Strategies or devices that use familiar information during the encoding of new information to enhance subsequent access to the information in memory.
