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Psychology RootsHeuristic There are lots of ways we can make judgments and solve problems; there are complex ways and quick ways. One quick …
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Heritability How much are you like your father or your mother? While our experiences and our situations have tremendous impacts on who …
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Health Psychology Health Psychology focuses on the more medical aspects of psychology and applies psychological principles to healing physical illness and medical …
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Hawthorne Effect The Hawthorne effect can be defined as changes in behavior resulting from attention participants believe they are getting from researchers, …
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Harry Harlow Harry Harlow (1905 – 1981) is known for his experiments on maternal separation and social isolation of rhesus monkeys. His …
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Haphazard Sampling Haphazard sampling is a sampling method that does not follow any systematic way of selecting participants. An example of Haphazard …
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Hallucinogens These are psychedelic (”mind-manifesting”) drugs that distort perceptions and produce sensory images (i.e., hallucinations) although there are no sensory stimuli that …
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Hallucinations Although we think most people know what hallucinations are, here is a brief explanation. Hallucinations can be defined as false sensory …
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Habituation As humans, we get used to things. Something that is new and incredibly exciting can become boring. This tendency to have …
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Groupthink A good way to define this term is to tell you how Irving Janus (the main researcher on this topic) describes …