Access to the mental lexicon
The word "lexicon" or lexicon has been used within the field of psycholinguisticsto refer to the ...
How to measure visual acuity
All visual processing begins in the eyes and all of its structures are important. We give more im...
What is FUNCTIONALISM in Psychology: Characteristics, Theory and Authors
Describing a psychological school in its entirety and in detail can be an arduous task, since eve...
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION in Psychology: Definition, Characteristics and Examples
Motivation can be defined as what drives us to do something. We could say that it refers to all t...
COVERT CONDITIONING: what it is, techniques and examples
From the 70s to the present, there has been a fundamental change in the use of cognitive-behavior...
Positive Emotions: Happiness
State of mind that is pleased in the possession of some good. It is the way in which life as a wh...
Type A Behavior Pattern and assessment styles
It arises from the work of Friedman and Rosenman, who define the pattern of coronary or Type A ri...
What is a discriminative stimulus in psychology
Discrimination is a term used in conditioning that means the ability to distinguish between a sti...
Primary and Secondary Motives: the power motive
The manifestation of the motive of power can be limited to the group close to the subject (family...
The 8 CURRENTS of PSYCHOLOGY and their characteristics
Do you wonder which psychological current is better? Do you know all the currents of psychology? ...