People and Society

Kenneth Wartinbee Spence Kenneth Wartinbee Spence was known for his theoretical and experimental studies of conditioning and learning. ...

Split-brain Technique Psychologists have demonstrated that even simple human tasks, like thinking of a word when viewing an object, inv...

Benjamin McLane Spock Benjamin McLane Spock was born on May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut, the oldest child in a large, strict New ...

Sports Psychology Sports—which involve emotion, competition, cooperation, achievement, and play—provide a rich area for psychological s...

Standardized Test Standardized tests are used in psychology, as well as in everyday life, to measure intelligence,aptitude, achievement...

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales Consisting of questions and short tasks arranged from easy to difficult, the Stanford-Binet measures...

Statistics in Psychology Psychologists rely heavily on statistics to help assess the meaning of the measurements they make. Sometimes t...