Psychology RootsStandard Deviation Standard Deviation is a measure of variation (or variability) that indicates the typical distance between the scores of a distribution …
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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 …
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Spotlight Effect The Spotlight Effect refers to our tendency to think that other people are watching us more closely than they actually …
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Spontaneous Recovery Spontaneous recovery is a term associated with learning and conditioning. Specifically, spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of response (a Conditioned …
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Split-Half Reliability A measure of consistency where a test is split in two and the scores for each half of the test …
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Split Brain As you may know, the human brain has two halves; a right half and a left half. Information is able …
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Spillover Effect The spillover effect refers to the tendency of one person’s emotion to affect how other people around them feel. For …
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Speed Tests Speed tests are designed to assess how quickly a test taker is able to complete the items within a set …
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Somnambulism Somnambulism (often also referred to as Nocturnal Somnambulism) describes a condition in which an individual repeatedly sleepwalks. In Psychology, it is …
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Somatotype The term somatotype was a classification of body type devised by William H. Sheldon. He believed that all humans fit within …