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Basic Anxiety

In Harvey’s theory the feeling of a child being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world.

Behaviour Space

Similar to Lewin’s concept of life space, a totality of factors that affect the behaviour of a given individual.

Behaviourism

A system of psychology founded by Watson and which emphasizes that all psychological functions can be explained in terms of stimulus and response.

Belief-value Matrix

Hierarchy of learned expectations concerning the different objects and their role in relation to behaviour.

Biopsychology

A branch of psychology that concerns with how biological processes affect important behaviour and cognitions.

Birth trauma

A concept propounded by Otto Rank that emphasizes the emotional experience of the new born ending its prenatal life.

Brunswik ratio

A ratio that emphasizes the relationship between real or physical to sensory representations of an object, indicating the extent to which physical attributes determine any given perception.

Bundle hypothesis

A hypothesis which emphasizes that a complex perception is a group of simple perceptions.