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Achievement test An achievement test is a standardized test that is designed to measure an individual’s level of knowledge in a particular…

Achievement Motivation Psychologist David McClelland studied workplace motivation extensively and theorized that workers, as well as their superiors, have needs that influence…

Acetylcholine Acetylcholine (ACh) is the most common type of neurotransmitter, and the most well understood. It’s found in parts of the peripheral…

Acculturation There are actually a couple of different meanings to this word (given in no particular order). The first definition here relates…

Accommodation This term stemmed from the work of Jean Piaget and his work on the cognitive development of children. Accommodation is the…

Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) is known as the Father of Humanistic Psychology, a school of thought that focused on the potential…

ABA Design ABA refers to a specific type of research design in which you have a baseline period where no treatment is…

Beliefs A belief is a proposition that is regarded as true. A belief may be factually correct (“The world is round”) or…

Behavior therapy The use of classical and operant conditioning principles to bring about therapeutic change. Techniques of behavior therapy include systematic desensitization,…

Behavior setting In ecological psychology, the interaction of social, physical, and ecological situations with behavior.