Psychology Glossary

The Glossary of Psychology describes everything about the World of Psychology. Terms, Treatments, biographies, ... .

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Middle adolescence refers to a period dominated by the goal of achieving competency, mastery, or control, and the conflict of independence versus dependence

Masking stimulus refers to a visual pattern that, when presented immediately after a visual stimulus, decreases a person’s ability to perceive the stimulus. This stops the persistence of vision, hence limits the effective duration of the stimulus.

Projective techniques is defined as Psychological testing techniques that use people's responses to ambiguous test stimuli to make judgments about their adjustment - maladjustment. Proponents of Projective techniques believe that examinees "project" themselves into the stimuli, hence revealing unconscious aspects of themselves. Psychological testing techniques, such as the Rorschach or the Thematic Apperception Test, use people's responses to ambiguous test stimuli to make judgments about their personality traits or their psychological state.

Divergent thinking is defined as thinking that produces many ideas or alternatives; thinking that requires a variety of ideas or solutions to a problem when there is no one correct answer; free and fluent association to the elements of a problem; a major element in original or creative thought. Divergent thinking is when one person tries to generate a diverse assortment of possible alternative solutions to a problem. Likewise, it is thinking in novel and unusual directions