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ABBA design	Ablation
Abnormal behaviour	Abnormal psychology
About Us	Accidents
Accommodation	Acknowledgements
Acoustic Coding	Action research
Active sleep	Actor-observer effect
Acute pain	Adaptive
Adaptive Behaviour	Adrenaline
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)	Advanced Extension Awards (AEA)
Aetiology	Affectionless psychopaths
Aggression	Aims
Alpha bias	Alpha male
Alternative Hypothesis	Altruism
Ambiguous	Ambiguous stimulus
Ameslan	Amnesia
Amygdala	Anaclitic depression
Anal Stage	Andocentric bias
Andocentric bias	Androgen
Androgyny	Androgyny
Anecdotal evidence	Anorexia nervosa
Anthropology	Anthropomorphism
Anti-social behaviour	Applied Psychology
AQA online resources	Arousal
Arousal: Cost Reward Model	Asch
Asch Conformity Experiments	Assimilation
Attachment	Attention
Attribution	Attribution bias
Attribution Theory	Attrition
Audience effects	Authoritarian Personality
Authoritative Parenting Style	Autism
Autonomic nervous system	Autonomous morality
Average	Aversion Therapy
Bandura Albert	Behaviour
Behaviour Modification	Behaviour Therapy
Behavioural Therapy	Behaviourism
Behaviourist Approach	Bem Sex Role Inventory
Between Groups Design	Between Subjects/Participants Design
Biased Sample	Bilateral
Binocular Depth Cues	Binocular Disparity
Biofeedback	Biological Determinism
Biological Psychology	Biomedical Model of Health
Biopsychosocial Model of Health	Blog
Bobo doll	BPS
BPS Research Digest	Brain
Brain scan	Breslow and Enstrom (1980)
Case study	Categorisation
Categorisation	Catharsis
Ceiling Effect	Central Tendency
Cerebral Cortex	Cerebrum
Chronic pain	Classical Conditioning
Clinical Psychology	Clinician
Cognition	Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Interview	Cognitive Interview
Cognitive Psychology	Commisurotomy
Comparative Psychology	Comparative Psychology
Concrete Operational Stage	Conditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus	Conditioning
Confederate	Conformity
Confounding variable	Conservation
Consonance	Construct Validity
Content Analysis	Control group
Corpus callosum	Correlation
Correlation Coefficient	Cortex
Counterbalancing	Criminal Psychology
Criterion Validity	Cross-Cultural Psychology
Cross-cultural research	Cross-sectional research
Crowd Psychology	Cultural Complexity
Cultural universal	Culture
Data	Datum
Debrief	Decentre
Deception	Defence mechanisms
Demand characteristics	Denial
Dependent Variable	Depersonalisation
Depth Cue	Descriptive Statistics
Determinism	Deviation
Diary Method	Diffusion of responsibility
Diglossia	Directional Hypothesis
Disclosure	Discourse Analysis
Discrimination	Discriminatory Stimulus
Dispositional attribution	Dissonance
Dizygotic (fraternal) Twins	doctor centred and patient centred practitioners
Doctor Centred Style	Double Blind Design
Down's syndrome	Dream Analysis
DSM-IV	Ecological Validity
Educational Psychology	EEG
Ego	Eidetic Memory
Electroencephalogram	Emic
Empirical	Endogenous Opioides
Environmental Psychology	EPI
Epilepsy	Epinephrine
Equity Theory	Ethics
Ethnocentric bias	Ethnocentric sampling bias
Ethological view of aggression	Etic
Eugenics	Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology	Experiment
Experimental Designs	Experimenter
Experimenter Bias	Experimenter Effect
External Locus of Control	External Reliabilty
External validity	Extraneous variable
Eye witness testimony	Face Validity
False Belief Task	FAQ
Field Experiment	Fieldwork
Fight or Flight Response	Flashbulb Memories
Floor Effect	Free Association
Freud Sigmund	Freudian Slip
Friedman and Rosenman (1974)	Frustration
Frustration Aggression Hypothesis	GAS
Gate Control Theory of Pain	Gender
Gender Bias	Gene
General Adaptation Syndrome	Generalisation
Genetic Determinism	Glossary
Goole	Halo Effect
Hassles	Health Behaviour
Health Belief Model	Health Locus of Control - Wallston (1978)
Health Psychology	Holmes and Rahe (1967)
Home Advantage - sport	Humanistic Psychology
Hypnosis	Hypotheses
Hypothesis	ICD-10
Id	Identification with the aggressor
Imitation	Immune System
Independent Measures Design	Individual and situational explanations
Inferential Statistics	Ingroup
Intelligence Quotient IQ	Inter
Inter-rater reliability	Internal Locus of Control
Internal Reliability	Internal Validity
Interpersonal	Interval Ratio Data
Intra	Intra-group
James-Lange Theory	Jigsaw Technique
Jungian	Just-World Hypothesis
Juvenile Delinquent	K-strategy
Kanner et al. (1981)	Kibbutz
Kin	Kin Selection
Kinaesthetic Sense	Laboratory
Laboratory experiment	Lateralisation of brain function
Leading question	Learned Helplessness
Levels of Measurement	Libido
Life Events	Likert Scale
Links	Locus of Control
Longitudinal approach	Majority Influence
Mann-Whitney U test	Masochism
Matched pairs design	Matched Pairs Design
Maturation	McGill Pain Questionnaire
McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ)	Mean
Measure of Central Tendency	Measure of Dispersion
Median	Memory
Menstruation	Milgram
Milgram?s Obedience Experiments	Minimal groups
Minority Influence	Mnemonics
Mode	Monozygotic
Monozygotic (identical) Twins	Moral Development
Motivated Forgetting	Multiple Personality Disorder
Native intellectual ability	Nature-nurture debate
Necker Cube	Negative Correlation
Negative Reinforcement	Nerve
Nervous System	Neuron
Neuroscience	Nicotine Regulation Model
nicotine regulation model	Nominal Data
Non Parametric Tests	Non-participant observation
Normal Distribution	Null Hypothesis
Obedience	Obedience
Obligation effect	Observation
Observational learning	Observational study
OCR online resources	Oedipus complex
Operant conditioning	Opportunity sampling
Ordinal Level of Measurement	Organisational Psychology
Parametric Tests	Parasympathetic Nervous System
Participant	Participant observation
Pathological prisoner syndrome	Pathology of power
patient centred and doctor centred practitioners	Patient Centred Style
Perception	Personality
Perspective drawings	PET scan
Phallic stage	Phallus
Phantom Limb Pain	Phantom Limbs
Phobia	Physiological
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development	Pilot Study
Placebo Effect	Population
Positive Correlation	Positive Reinforcement
Powerlessness	Practice Effect
Pre-Menstrual Syndrome	Prejudice
Primacy Effect	Projection
Projective tests	Pseudo-patient
Psychiatrist	Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Approach	Psychometric Test
Psychometrics	Punishment
Qualitative data	Quantitative data
Quasi experiment	Questionnaire
Questionnaires	R-strategy
Random	Random sampling
Range	Realistic Conflict Theory
Reasoned Action Theory – Fishbein (1975)	Recency Effect
Reconstructive memory hypothesis	Reductionism
Reflex	Regression
Reinforcement	Reliability
REM	Rennets
Repeated Measures Design	Repression
Retina	Review article
Robber's Cave Experiment	Rorschach test
Sadism	Sally-Anne test
Sampling technique	Scattergram
Scattergram	Scattergraph
Schizophrenia	Schizophrenia in remission
Secondary Reinforcement	Self Concept
Self Esteem	Self Image
Self report method	Self selected sampling
Self-efficacy	Self-fulfilling prophecy
Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome	Semantic
Shaping	Siblings
Situational attribution	Skinner
Skinner Box	Snap shot study
Snow ball sampling	Social control
Social Desirability Bias	Social Exchange Theory
Social Facilitation	Social Identity
Social Identity Theory	Social Influence
Social Inhibition	Social Interaction
Social learning theory	Social Loafing
Social Needs	Social Norm
Social Psychology	Social Role
Sociobiology	Specificity Theory of Pain
Spinal Cord	Split-brain patients
Split-style drawings	Sport Psychology
Standard Deviation	Standardisation
Standardised Instructions	Standardised Procedure
Standardised Tests	Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Programme
Stanford Prison Experiment	Statistics
Stimulus	Stimulus
Stimulus-Response Learning	Strange Situation
Stratified sampling	Stress Experience
Stress Response	Stressor
Stroop Effect	Structured Interview
Structured observation	Subliminal Advertising
Subliminal Perception	Superego
Survey	Sustained Attention
Synaesthesia	T-test
Test-retest Reliability	Thalamus
Theory of mind	Theory of reasoned action
Therapy	Token Economy System (Token Economies)
Trait	Trait Theory
Transference	Tuckman (1965)
Two-factor theory of emotion	Two-process Theory of Memory
Type 1 Error	Type 2 Error
Type A Behaviour Pattern	Type B Behaviour Pattern
Unconditioned Response	Unconditioned Stimulus
Unconscious	Undisclosed observation
Unstructured observation	Usefulness of psychological research
Valid	Validity
Variability Hypothesis	Variables
Verbal Deprivation Hypothesis	Vicarious Learning
Vicarious Reinforcement	Vigilance
Visual Cortex	Visual field
Voluntary Behaviour	Volunteer Sample
Vygotsky	Vygotsky?s Theory of Cognitive Development
Wilcoxon signed rank test	Withdrawal Symptoms
Within Subjects/Participants Design	Working Memory Model
Workplace Wellness Programmes	www.learnpsychology.net
X Chromosome	X-axis
Xenophobia	Y Chromosome
Y-axis	YAVIS
Yerkes-Dodson Law	Zajonc's drive theory
Zeitgeber	Zeitgeist
Zero correlation	Zimbardo
Zone of Proximal Development	Zygote