Unconditional Positive Regard The nonjudgmental empathy and respect for another person. Unconditioned Response The response in a stimulus-response chain that is naturally occurring as …
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Dictionary of Psychology letter T
T-ScoreA standard score that sets the mean to fifty and standard deviation to ten. Used on a number of tests including the MMPI. t-TestA group of statistics used to determine if a significance …
Dictionary of Psychology letter S
Sample Portion of the entire population used to estimate what is likely happening within a population. Sample Mean Abbreviated with a lowercase x with a horizontal line over top (called 'x-bar'), …
Dictionary of Psychology letters Q-R
Quasi-Experimental Research Any research study that uses specific experimental methods but does not randomize subjects R Symbol used for the Pearson-product moment correlation (correlation …
Dictionary of Psychology letter P
Panic Attack Period of extreme anxiety and physical symptoms such as heart palpitations, shakiness, dizziness, and racing thoughts. Initial attacks are often reported to feel like a heart attack …
Dictionary of Psychology letter O
Object PermanenceThe understanding that objects exist even when they are not directly observed.Objective Techniques A generic term for the psychological procedures used to measure personality …
Dictionary of Psychology letter N
N Symbol used for the number of subjects or data in a distribution. A study with 10 subjects would have an N equal to 10. Naturalistic Observation A research method where the subject(s) …