7 of the Psychology glossary’s terms, each with the part of the syllabus where you first meet it.
A cultural dimension describing how far members of a society feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations and try to reduce uncertainty through rules, structure and planning.
The unlearned, reflexive response produced by an unconditioned stimulus, such as salivation to food or a startle to a sudden loud noise.
A stimulus that triggers a response naturally, without any learning, such as food producing salivation or a loud noise producing fear.
A false-belief task in which a familiar container holds something unexpected and the child is asked what another person, or they themselves earlier, would think is inside.
A false-belief task in which an object is moved while a character is absent and the child is asked where the character will look for it, such as the Sally-Anne task.
A model that places acculturation on a single line running from the heritage culture to the host culture, so that gaining the new culture means losing the old one.
An interview with no fixed list of questions, which develops like a conversation around a general topic and follows the participant's answers.