Repertory grid

Reliability

Reinforcement

Reflex

Reflected appraisals

Reference

Reductionist psychology

Recognition by Components

Reciprocity

Reciprocal altruism

Receptive fields

Receptive field

Recasting

Random sampling

a form of sampling in which any member of the population being studied is equally likely to be selected for the research.

the often instinctive way in which the young child's ungrammatical utterances are put into correct grammatical forms by its mother or carer and which aid in the development of the child's language.

the region of the stimulus that, when stimulated, causes a change in the response of a sensory neurone.

exhibiting lateral inhibition.

in evolutionary psychology, the occurrence of cases of non-human behaviour that are mutually helpful in the sense that the agent cannot gain, or even loses, inclusive fitness as a result of this action.

a relationship or interaction based on fair exchange or exchanges between the people or animals participating.

a theory of visual object recognition, holding that objects are represented internally as a constellation of geons and that the image is segmented into the parts corresponding to geons so that the resulting description can be matched to the appropriate object description.

a form of psychology which is based upon an examination of phenomena through the study of their individual components; thus, in social psychology, the study of the group through the psychology of the individuals that make up that group.

an extra-linguistic definition of meaning, also known as extension, where the reference of an expression is what entities or states it points to in the outside world.

in symbolic interactionism, the way in which others actually evaluate us when mediated by how we believe others evaluate us, a fact which is strongly related to our self-concepts. Also known as looking-glass self.

a particular pattern of behaviour, such as sucking, triggered by a specific stimulus with which all children are born and which plays a crucial part in the overall development of the child in the months before and after birth.

a term used differently by various theorists to describe how a reinforcer serves to increase the likelihood of a particular behaviour happening again.

whether a test or experimental measure will give the same results under the same conditions on a different occasion.

in psychotherapy, a grid method, base on an individual's particular judgements about people in their environment and from which constructs can be constructed to be elaborated on in interview.

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