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Dictionary of Psychology letters U-V-W-Y-Z

  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 …

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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'), …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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) …

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