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Unconditional Positive RegardThe nonjudgmental empathy and respect for another person. Unconditioned ResponseThe response in a stimulus-response chain that is naturally occurring as opposed …
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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 …
SamplePortion of the entire population used to estimate what is likely happening within a population. Sample MeanAbbreviated with a lowercase x with a horizontal line over top (called 'x-bar'), the …
Quasi-Experimental ResearchAny research study that uses specific experimental methods but does not randomize subjects RSymbol used for the Pearson-product moment correlation (correlation …
Panic AttackPeriod 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 …
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 …
NSymbol used for the number of subjects or data in a distribution. A study with 10 subjects would have an N equal to 10. Naturalistic ObservationA research method where the subject(s) is(are) …
