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n. An overly positive evaluation of the group to which one belongs and a denigration of other gro...

n. In gaming theory, a two-person game in which a prize is split by the two players: one player i...

n. Any biological cycle longer than a day, such as human menstruation or the alteration of the da...

n. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum between 0.5 nanometer and about 390–400 nanometers wh...

n. The experience of being in and involved in the physical and biological world around one's self...

n. An individual who speaks two languages but one of them better than the other; the category inc...

n. 1. The state of not knowing something or being unable to predict something with great accuracy...

n. 1. The intolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty, which is hypothesized to bring about a need f...

n. In quantum physics, the idea, introduced by Werner Heisenberg in 1927, that it is impossible t...

n. The process of obtaining more information about other people or events through observation and...

n. In Rogerian theory, an unaffected valuing, caring for, and interest in another individual whic...

n. (UCR, UR) Any behavior that occurs in the absence of specific conditioning for it. Hypothetica...

n. (UCS, US) Any stimulus that elicits a particular response without being taught that response. ...

n. (UR) Any behavior that occurs in the absence of specific conditioning for it. Hypothetically i...

n. In operant conditioning, anything which can be used to increase or decrease the likelihood of ...

▶ See UNCONDITIONAL RESPONSE

▶ See UNCONDITIONAL STIMULUS

1. adj. Of or relating to any process or content of the mind of which the individual is not aware...

n. Any motivational force or energy outside the awareness of the individual. These are usually co...

n. Any thought process outside the awareness of the individual.

n. The supposition that perception is influenced by conclusions about sensory data using the perc...

n. 1. In cognitive psychology, the capacity to use information from past experience while having ...

n. An inappropriate failure to generalize the use of a word to all appropriate objects or situati...

n. Attributing pathological symptoms to normative cultural differences.

n. A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech, thou...

n. The quality of having a single statistical factor.

n. A scaling procedure which differentiates between a subject's own preferences about a stimulus ...

n. The quality of having a single statistical factor.

n. Any procedure which produces a measuring device having a single factor in it. In psychological...

n. A style of parenting in which parents are often too absorbed in their own lives to respond app...

n. Any depressive disorder that occurs without periods of mania or hypomania.

n. A sensory neuron in the skin that has a single extension from the cell body which branches in ...

adj. Relating to having a single dimension of variability.

n. The branch of statistics devoted to analyzing the relationships between one or more independen...

1. adj. Of or relating to all possible individuals, as in all people or all living things. 2. n. ...

n. The term universal grammar (UG) describes the set of universal principles that license the gra...

n. 1. In psychology, any cognitive forms or functions that appear in all people (or all members o...

▶ See LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS

n. Any measurement taken without the awareness of the subject and without this awareness's affect...

n. Studies that unpackage the contents of the global, unspecific concept of culture into specific...

n. A transient response to a stimulus that is subjectively disliked, including anger, fear, disgu...

n. Unrealistic optimism is the belief that positive events are more likely to happen to the self ...

n. A method in psychophysics in which the limits of perceptual accuracy are discovered by present...

n. 1. The maximal intensity of a stimulus that can be perceived without causing pain or damage to...

n. C4H4N2O2, One of the four bases which form all RNA; it corresponds to thymine in DNA, into whi...

n. Sexual arousal by and sexual interest in the process or sensation of urination.

n. Sexual arousal by urine or the process or sensations of urination. This may involve watching o...

n. A psychological disorder in which a person is sexually aroused by thoughts about or the action...

n. The part an attitude plays in gaining rewards and avoiding punishments. Thus a person might co...

n. 1. The degree to which an object or event is valued by or gives happiness to an individual. 2....

n. In the psychology of decision making or game theory, any coherent set of ideas trying to descr...

n. A fluid-filled sac in the vestibule of the inner ear which is part of the sense of bodily posi...