Glossary / Lexicon
Descriptive norms
Descriptive norms refer to people's perceptions of how other people are actually behaving in a given situation, regardless of what behaviors are socially sanctioned
Related Articles | |
| Ethical difference at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■■ |
Ethical difference refers to the situations in which two people agree on a particular value and disagree . . . Read More | |
| Social Psychology at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■■ |
Social Psychology is the scientific study of how people perceive, affect, and relate to one another. . . . Read More | |
| Typical-answer approach at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■■ |
Typical-answer approach refers to a method of scoring interview answers that compares an applicant"s . . . Read More | |
| Control theory at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■■ |
Control theory refers to cognitive theory that explains people's variance in behavior in certain domains . . . Read More | |
| Mundane realism at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■■ |
Mundane realism is a degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations. In . . . Read More | |
| Pygmalion effect at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■■ |
Pygmalion effect refers to the idea that if people believe that something is true, they will act in a . . . Read More | |
| Basic suggestion effect at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■ |
Basic suggestion effect refers to the tendency of hypnotized persons to carry out suggested actions as . . . Read More | |
| Idea at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■ |
Idea is defined as a mental event that lingers after impressions or sensations have ceased. In the psychology . . . Read More | |
| Interact at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■ |
Interact is when the effects of one drug are modified by the presence of another drug. There is also . . . Read More | |
| Celebrity at psychology-glossary.com | ■■■■ |
Celebrity: In psychology, celebrity refers to the status and recognition that someone achieves by being . . . Read More | |