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Achievement test An achievement test is a standardized test that is designed to measure an individual’s level of knowledge in a particular …

Achievement Motivation Psychologist David McClelland studied workplace motivation extensively and theorized that workers, as well as their superiors, have needs that influence …

Acetylcholine Acetylcholine (ACh) is the most common type of neurotransmitter, and the most well understood. It’s found in parts of the peripheral …

Acculturation There are actually a couple of different meanings to this word (given in no particular order). The first definition here relates …

Accommodation This term stemmed from the work of Jean Piaget and his work on the cognitive development of children. Accommodation is the …

Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) is known as the Father of Humanistic Psychology, a school of thought that focused on the potential …

ABA Design ABA refers to a specific type of research design in which you have a baseline period where no treatment is …

Beliefs A belief is a proposition that is regarded as true. A belief may be factually correct (“The world is round”) or …

Behavior therapy The use of classical and operant conditioning principles to bring about therapeutic change. Techniques of behavior therapy include systematic desensitization, …

Behavior setting In ecological psychology, the interaction of social, physical, and ecological situations with behavior.