Psychometric tests

Pseudodiagnosticity

Proximity-maintaining behaviours

Proxemics

Protoconversations

Protection

Propositional storage and retrieval

Production systems

Processing stream

Process model of persuasion

Procedural memory

Problem reduction

Private self

Principle of compositionality

Primitive

Primary memory

see short term store.

in biological terms, a term relating to a trait which has manifested itself in the early stages of the evolution of a species.

a theoretical principle in semantics which indicates that one can combine the basic meanings of all of the words and phrases involved in an utterance to determine the meaning of the whole utterance.

the part of the self-concept which is purely personal and unknown to other people.

in problem solving, a technique using the method of 'divide and conquer' applied to reduce one large problem to several smaller ones.

memory that is not open to conscious inspection (e.g. skills).

in the study of attitude change, an account which suggests that the effect of a persuasive communication is determined by a five-stage process of attention, comprehension, yielding, retention and behaviour.

a neural pathway thought to be concerned primarily with the analysis of one stimulus attribute, such as form stream, motion stream.

in problem solving applications, a system for solving problems that is built from a set of 'if...then' rules to be applied to a particular situation.

in environmental cognition, the process of storing spatial information as a string of instructions for movement along a route.

the preservation of the participant from any risk of physical or mental harm during the course of a psychological experiment, as well as the ensuring of their privacy during observation.

the earliest form of communication between carer and infant based on an exchange of looks, smiles and sounds which engage the baby's attention.

in the study of communication, the use of space between individuals in various social or cultural situations, and which conveys varying degrees of intimacy and friendliness.

see attachment behaviours

in heuristics, the idea that people tend to retain an initial (and often favoured) hypothesis or try to confirm rather than disconfirm hypotheses when making decisions about things.

methods of measuring mental characteristics. Psychological tests have been developed to measure a wide range of things, including creativity, job attitudes and skills, brain damage and, of course, 'intelligence'.

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