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Month: January 2017

Projection bias
Cognitive Psychology

What Is the Projection Bias?

January 31, 2017 Kendra Cherry 2

The projection bias is a type of cognitive bias that involves overestimating the degree to which other people agree with us. People tend to assume that others think, feel, believe, and behave much like they […]

Contingency theory of leadership
Social Psychology

What Is the Contingency Theory of Leadership?

January 30, 2017 Kendra Cherry Comments Off on What Is the Contingency Theory of Leadership?

“Effective leadership is finding a good fit between behaviour, context, and need.” – White & Hodgson, 2003 What is it exactly that makes a leader effective? According to one theory of leadership that became prominent […]

Perfectionism is a personality trait
Personality

What Is Perfectionism? (Definition and Examples)

January 25, 2017 Kendra Cherry 2

In psychology, perfectionism is a term used to describe a personality trait that involves constantly striving for perfection, maintaining high (sometimes excessive) standards, and refusing to accept anything less that flawlessness. The Psychology of Perfectionism […]

Factorial design
Psychology Dictionary

What Is a Factorial Design? (Definition and Examples)

January 24, 2017 Kendra Cherry Comments Off on What Is a Factorial Design? (Definition and Examples)

In the simplest psychology experiments, researchers look at how one independent variable affects one dependent variable. But what happens if researchers want to look at the effects of multiple independent variables? This type of study […]

Piaget's stages
Development

Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

January 5, 2017 Kendra Cherry 1

Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that children progress through a series of stages of mental development. The theory outlines four distinct stages from birth through adolescence, focusing on how children acquire knowledge, reasoning, language, […]

Serial Position Effect
Psychology Dictionary

What Is the Serial Position Effect?

January 3, 2017 Kendra Cherry 2

The serial position effect refers to our tendency to be able to recall the first and last items on a list better and the middle items worse. Psychology Hermann Ebbinghaus noted during his research that […]

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