Glossary D
Glossary D
Deutsch: Richtung / Español: Dirección / Português: Direção / Français: Direction / Italiano: Direzione /
In psychology, "direction" encompasses a range of concepts related to the choices, goals, motivations, and trajectories that individuals pursue in their lives. It involves the psychological processes and decisions that guide human behavior and development. Psychologists study direction to understand how individuals set and achieve goals, make choices, and navigate their life paths.
Directional hypothesis is defined as a tentative prediction that the levels of an independent variable will cause a dependent variable to change in a particular direction.
Directionality problem means not knowing which of the variables was the cause and which the is effect from a correlational observation. Moreover, Directionality problem is a correlational study can establish that two variables are related; that is, that changes in one variable tend to be accompanied by changes in the other variable.
Deutsch: Direkt Beobachtbar / Español: Directamente Observable / Português: Diretamente Observável / Français: Directement Observable / Italian: Direttamente Osservabile
Directly Observable refers to behaviors, actions, or phenomena in psychology that can be seen, measured, and verified without inference or interpretation. This term is often contrasted with internal processes such as thoughts or emotions, which are not directly visible and require subjective reporting.