In environmental psychology, a locus or set of loci with respect to which spatial position is defined.

In Freudian psychoanalysis, a technique for accessing the patient’s subconscious, by encouraging them to relax in a reclining posture and move freely and spontaneously from thought to thought

In the analysis of how people make attributions, the tendency to over-estimate the impact of dispositional factors and to underestimate the impact of situational factors in making attributions.

In the study of channels of communication between individuals, the pattern of looking at the other that can have communicative value.

A term for the portion of chromosomal material that carries the inherited characters of an individual and which potentially serves as a unit of natural selection.

A way of thinking about grammar rules where they are seen as generating all and only those sentences that are legitimate in the language in question.

Those aspects of an individual that may lead them to respond more negatively to an unpleasant event, which are related to events they have experienced in the past.

A group of mainly German psychologists, who were most active in the 1920s and interested, among other things, in the way that perception imposes structure upon its stimulus.

An approach in the theory of intelligence, which emphasizes the independence of different factors that make up intelligence rather than one important general factor; using factor analysis, the American psychologist Thurstone identified seven separate factors in the performance of intelligence tests.

Acceptance of the individual into a particular social group, which in turn is a powerful influence in the formation of the self.