Factor Analysis
A statistical technique based on correlation and which is used to extract the underlying factor or factors, that account for the observed relationship between scores.
A statistical technique based on correlation and which is used to extract the underlying factor or factors, that account for the observed relationship between scores.
In Tolman’s theory a kind of expectation on the part of the organism that a particular response to a particular stimulus or cue will lead to a particular consequences.
A theory that apply to fields of force as an explanation of psychological events.
In Tolman’s theory a combination of thinking, perceiving and remembering of the organism that helps in knowing specific characteristic of the environment.
Person’s tendency to divide the perceptual world into two distinct types-clear and distinction part usually called figure and relatively vauge and indistinct part usually called background against which figure stands out.
In psychoanalytic theory persistence of immature behavior or thinking accompanied by a lack of normal development.
A schedule of reinforcement in which a fixed interval of time must elapse before a response is reinforced.
A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is given only after a fixed number of reinforcements have occurred.
An important procedure in psychoanalysis in which individuals spontaneously report all thoughts, even trivial ones, to the therapist.
In Roger’s theory a psychologically healthy person who enjoy life to the utmost in realistic way.
A concept enunciated by Allport in which the person maintains a behaviour by motives other than the ones originally responsible for the occurrence of that behaviour.
The tendency to think about the objects only as they have been used in past.
A school of psychology that emphasizes upon the function or utility of behaviour in making adaptation to the environment.