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Statistics Statistics are mathematical procedures used to describe numbers and to draw inferences from those numbers. For example, if a 100 point…

Statistical Significance This is a very important and common term in psychology, but one that many people have problems with. Technically, statistical…

Stanley Milgrim Stanley Milgram (1933 – 1984) was a Social Psychologist who is most well-known for conducting a series of controversial experiments…

Stanford-Binet Test Alfred Binet (in collaboration with Theodore Stanford) was instructed by the French government to design a test that would identify…

Standardization Consistency and objectivity of how tests are administered and scored. In order to compare one person to another on a test,…

Standard Deviation Standard Deviation is a measure of variation (or variability) that indicates the typical distance between the scores of a distribution…

S-R Approach (Contiguity) The S-R Approach is the “stimulus-response” approach and is based on the premise of Contiguity, which states, for learning…

Spotlight Effect The Spotlight Effect refers to our tendency to think that other people are watching us more closely than they actually…

Spontaneous Recovery Spontaneous recovery is a term associated with learning and conditioning. Specifically, spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of response (a Conditioned…

Split-Half Reliability A measure of consistency where a test is split in two and the scores for each half of the test…