Glossary Items Starting with "H"
- health psychology
- A relatively new applied discipline in psychology that
focuses on understanding and modifying behavior that affects
one's physical health.
- heterogeneous
- A group is said to be heterogeneous if there is considerable
variability within the group.
- heuristic influence
- The nonsystematic impact of research or theory in
stimulating new research.
- histogram
- A bar graph in which the frequency of any given score or the
mean for any given group is represented by the height of the
bar. Histograms allow you to see the shape of a distribution or
compare the performance of participants tested under various
conditions.
- history
- Potential confounding variable. History represents any
change in the dependent variable over the course of a research
study that is a function of events other than the manipulation
of the independent variable.
- homogeneity
- See
homogeneous.
- homogeneous
- A population is said to be homogeneous if the participants
in the population are similar to one another.
- humanistic psychology
- A philosophical perspective that emphasizes subjective
experience and the distinctively human qualities of choice and
self-realization.
- hyperlink
- A link between web documents, which allows one to transfer
to the linked document with a single click.