| 1. | Q sort | It is a technique used in personality assessment that is based on a series of statements and trait names that the subject sorts into categories from "most characteristic of me" to More… 0.2 KB |
| 2. | Quale | a sensation considered as a simple bit of experience, without regard to its meaning or significance. |
| 3. | Quality | 1- a basic aspect of a sensation by means of which it is distinguished from all other sensations. Quality as used in this sense implies a difference in kind and not in degree. 2- the More… 0.3 KB |
| 4. | Quality assurance | Activities and programs intended to assure the standard of care in a defined medical setting or program. Such programs must include educational components intended to remedy identified More… 0.2 KB |
| 5. | Quantitative psychological research | Defined as psychological research which performs mathematical modeling and statistical estimation or statistical inference. This definition distinguishes it from so-called qualitative More… 1.6 KB |
| 6. | Quantitative psychology | Means the application of statistical and mathematical methods to the study of psychology. This area of study is loosely divided into the subfields of psychometrics and mathematical More… 1.4 KB |
| 7. | Quantum Psychology | Some consider Quantum Psychology a follow-up to Wilson's earlier volume Prometheus Rising, mainly for the presence of practical exercises to demonstrate its concepts at the end of each More… 1.0 KB |
| 8. | Quartile deviation | A measure of variability which is equal to one half the difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles. In a normal distribution, the deviation quartile is equal to the probable error. More… 0.2 KB |
| 9. | Quasi experimental research | Refers to any research carried out without full control over the independent variables. Much naturalistic social psychological research falls within this category, like analysis of More… 0.4 KB |
| 10. | Question | A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or else the request itself made by such an expression. This information is provided with an More… 1.4 KB |
| 11. | Quietism | Quietism in philosophy is an approach to the subject that sees the role of philosophy as broadly therapeutic or remedial. Quietist philosophers believe that philosophy has no positive theses More… 0.6 KB |
| 12. | Quota sampling | the selecting of a certain proportion of elements from a set of subgroups that make up the population from which the sample is drawn. |
