Archives

Heuristic There are lots of ways we can make judgments and solve problems; there are complex ways and quick ways. One quick…

Heritability How much are you like your father or your mother? While our experiences and our situations have tremendous impacts on who…

Health Psychology Health Psychology focuses on the more medical aspects of psychology and applies psychological principles to healing physical illness and medical…

Hawthorne Effect The Hawthorne effect can be defined as changes in behavior resulting from attention participants believe they are getting from researchers,…

Harry Harlow Harry Harlow (1905 – 1981) is known for his experiments on maternal separation and social isolation of rhesus monkeys. His…

Haphazard Sampling Haphazard sampling is a sampling method that does not follow any systematic way of selecting participants. An example of Haphazard…

Hallucinogens These are psychedelic (”mind-manifesting”) drugs that distort perceptions and produce sensory images (i.e., hallucinations) although there are no sensory stimuli that…

Hallucinations Although we think most people know what hallucinations are, here is a brief explanation. Hallucinations can be defined as false sensory…

Habituation As humans, we get used to things. Something that is new and incredibly exciting can become boring. This tendency to have…

Groupthink A good way to define this term is to tell you how Irving Janus (the main researcher on this topic) describes…