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Statistics Statistics are mathematical procedures used to describe numbers and to draw inferences from those numbers. For example, if a 100 point …

Statistical Significance This is a very important and common term in psychology, but one that many people have problems with. Technically, statistical …

Stanley Milgrim Stanley Milgram (1933 – 1984) was a Social Psychologist who is most well-known for conducting a series of controversial experiments …

Stanford-Binet Test Alfred Binet (in collaboration with Theodore Stanford) was instructed by the French government to design a test that would identify …

Standardization Consistency and objectivity of how tests are administered and scored. In order to compare one person to another on a test, …

Standard Deviation Standard Deviation is a measure of variation (or variability) that indicates the typical distance between the scores of a distribution …

S-R Approach (Contiguity) The S-R Approach is the “stimulus-response” approach and is based on the premise of Contiguity, which states, for learning …

Spotlight Effect The Spotlight Effect refers to our tendency to think that other people are watching us more closely than they actually …

Spontaneous Recovery Spontaneous recovery is a term associated with learning and conditioning. Specifically, spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of response (a Conditioned …

Split-Half Reliability A measure of consistency where a test is split in two and the scores for each half of the test …