Object Permanance
A basic understanding among children that any object continue to exist even when it has passed off from the view.
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Objective tests
Inventories or questionnaires used to assess different aspects or dimensions of personality .
Observational learning
A process of learning in which the person acquires knowledge by observing the behaviour of others.
Oedipus Complex
In Freud’s theory a crisis of psychosexual development in which male child has sexual attraction for mother and hatred for father.
Operant behaviour
A response or behaviour for which their is no known eliciting stimulus and has a definite effect upon the environment. Operant conditioning: Conditioning of operant response by establishing a contingency between a response and its consequence.
Oral stage
A stage of psychosexual development during which the pleasure is derived from activities of mouth only. .
Organismic
Relating to any study which stresses the study of behaviour of the whole organism rather than its parts.
Orienting Reaction
A attentional response towards a novel stimuli. It mainly includes perceptual, physiological and postural responses towards stimuli.