False consensus effect

Factor analysis

Falsification

Feature detector

Fast mapping

Falsifiable theory

False-belief tasks

False uniqueness

False consensus effect

Factor analysis

Face validity

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)

Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)

a questionnaire devised by the psychologist Hans Eysenck to capture the dimensions of personality in a questionnaire format for use in psychiatric diagnosis, using the extroversion-introversion and neuroticism-normality dimensions. See also EPQ.

a modification of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, incorporating a third dimension, psychoticism to account for more of the variance in data.

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Whether a test or measure looks on the surface as though it probably measures what it is supposed to.

in intelligence testing, a mathematical technique used to identify the underlying factors which could account for the correlations between different tests.

in the study of the attribution process, the tendency to use our own attitudes and behaviour as the basis for deciding consensus for that behaviour, by overestimating the number of people who share our beliefs and habits.

an aspect of the false consensus effect, where the subject underestimates the number of people who share their particular skills and abilities.

a series of tasks used in the study of theory of mind which provide a test case for finding out whether children really understand the relationship between beliefs and behaviour.

a theory capable of generating hypotheses that show it to be false and which is an essential feature of scientific method.

the process whereby the child learns new nouns and verbs by relating a novel object or action to a novel word via the formation of a new concept in as little as a single experience.

the idea deriving from early neuro-physical studies of the visual cortex that an individual cell (specifically a simple cell) could signal the presence of an individual line or edge of a specific orientation at a specific position in the image.

in experiments with selection tasks, a level of insight into the logical structure of the task demonstrated by the choosing of cards that are falsifying rather than confirming instances.

in intelligence testing, a mathematical technique used to identify the underlying factors which could account for the correlations between different tests.

in the study of the attribution process, the tendency to use our own attitudes and behaviour as the basis for deciding consensus for that behaviour, by overestimating the number of people who share our beliefs and habits.

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