Laboratory experiment

Kin selection

Job aptitude tests

Invariant

Introspection

Introduction

Internalization

Intergroup rivalry

Intergroup comparison

Intergroup

Interaural delay

Interactionalist resolution

Interactional synchronicity

Intentional deception

one of the thorniest of ethical issues in psychological research, deception is used in psychological studies through the use of confederates in order to gauge the response of subjects to wrong answers. The use of deception is usually revealed to the subject in the debriefing session.

a stage of development whereby babies over the age of 2 or 3 months develop a readiness for communicative interaction with their carers.

in the analysis of personality dimension, the study of behaviour as a product of traits expressed in interaction with social situations.

a difference in the time of arrival of a stimulus at the two ears. An important source of information about the direction of a sound source. See also timing cue.

awareness and hostility in social psychology, the existence of prejudice and hostility as part of the normal relations within groups.

in social identity theory, the comparison between one's own group and other groups.

competition between different social groups, which can often lead to powerful hostility.

conforming with others because of a personal belief in the Tightness of the conforming behaviour.

the part of a research report which describes why the study was carried out, and what the researchers aimed to discover.

the most informal kind of self-report, in which a subject speculates on his/her cognitive states and processes, and which produces data of a highly qualitative nature.

a feature of the stimulus that reliably signals some useful feature of the world and which is usually associated with the direct approach to perception.

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psychometric tests which assess whether someone is likely to be good at a particular job - in other words, whether they have the right type of mental skills or talents so that they should be able to learn the job quickly and easily.

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in evolution, the use of inclusive fitness to explain apparent cases of altruism, and which accounts for animal (and perhaps human) behavioural choices.

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an experiment that, unlike a field experiment is strictly controlled and far from natural. It can however make up for taking the phenomenon out of its context by allowing much more careful control of the different variables involved.

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