Opportunity sample

Opponency theory

Operant conditioning

Open-ended interview

Ontogenesis

On-region

One-trial learning

On-centre cell

Oligodendrocyte

Off-region

Off-centre cell

Occupational psychology

Occupational psychologists

Occipital lobe

Observational approach

a non-experimental case study of human behaviour which involves the keeping of an accurate record of events which can be studied in detail later.

one of the four cerebral hemispheres which comprise the cerebrum.

psychologists who deal with people at work. Some occupational psychologists are concerned with recruitment or selection: fitting people to jobs. Others are concerned with human interactions at work: how organisations and departments are managed.

the study of work in terms of the feelings, attitudes, behaviour and performance of those at work and those factors which influence workers, attitudes and behaviour.

a type of retinal ganglion cell with a receptive field in which the centre sub-region is an on-region. See also on-centre cell.

a region of the receptive field of a sensory neurone in which an increase in stimulus intensity produces a decrease in response whilst a decrease in stimulus intensity produces an increase in response. See also on-region.

in the central nervous system, a type of glial cell which produces an insulating sheath around the axons of neurones.

a type of retinal ganglion cell with a receptive field in which the centre sub-region an on-region. See also off-centre cell.

a rapid form of learning, which takes only one event to be learned, such as avoiding a food which has made you sick.

a region of the receptive field of a sensory neurone in which an increase in stimulus intensity produces an increase in response, whilst a decrease in stimulus intensity produces a decrease in response. See also off-region.

in environmental psychology, the development from infancy of cognitive skills for environmental understanding.

a face-to-face set of questions posed to a subject in the course of social research.

the way in which the infant learns new abilities and new information in order to develop, through the positive reinforcement of repeated actions and patterns of behaviour.

the idea that perceived colour depends, in human vision, upon the balance of activity in mechanisms tuned to complementary colours.

a sample in which the researcher cannot use systematic sampling methods, but has simply used the research participants that are readily available.

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