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Psychology Terms - Acoustic feature
Any physical property or characteristic of a sound, such as its fundamental frequency or loudness.


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Psychology Terms - Acoustic generalization
*The phenomenon whereby a learnt reaction to an auditory stimulus, such as a word or melody, is elicited by a similar sound.


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Psychology Terms - Acoustic generalization
*The phenomenon whereby a learnt reaction to an auditory stimulus, such as a word or melody, is elicited by a similar sound.


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Psychology Terms - Acoustic reflex
An involuntary contraction of the tensor tympani and stapedius muscles in the middle ears, occurring bilaterally in response to intense noise presented to either ear, stiffens the eardrum and restricts the movement of the ossicles, resulting in a temporary threshold shift and providing protection against auditory damage. It resembles the pupillary light reflex elicited by intense illumination. Also referred to as the tympanic reflex.


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Psychology Terms - Acoustic similarity effect
The phenomenon wherein lists of phonetically similar words are more challenging to recall than lists of phonetically dissimilar phrases.



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Psychology Terms -acoustic store
A collective term for the postcategorical acoustic store and the precategorical acoustic store, however their existence is rather disputed. A theoretical repository of memories generated by sound coding.


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Psychological Terms - Acquaintanceship knowledge
A classification of knowledge that is separate from both declarative knowledge (knowing that) and procedural knowledge (knowing how). It encompasses awareness of individuals, locations, and objects, and while it may incorporate declarative knowledge, it is not obligatory, as exemplified by the recognition of a color, scent, or visage without the ability to articulate specific facts about them. The Welsh philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) addressed this category of knowledge in The Problems of Philosophy (1912), and it remains inadequately comprehended within psychology.


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Psychology Terms - acquiescence response set
In psychometrics, a persistent inclination to reply affirmatively to yes/no questionnaire items, regardless of the questions' content. Well-designed questionnaires typically mitigate this response bias through counterbalancing.


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