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Form 990. 2022 revision of Form 990. Form 990 (officially, the " Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax " [ 1]) is a United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form that provides the public with information about a nonprofit organization. [ 2] It is also used by government agencies to prevent organizations from abusing their tax-exempt ...
Psychophysiology. Psychophysiology (from Greek ψῡχή, psȳkhē, "breath, life, soul"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. [ 1] While psychophysiology was a general broad field of research in the 1960s and 1970s ...
Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, [ 1] with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes. It addresses the questions of how cognitive activities are affected or controlled by neural ...
An example of a descriptive device used in psychological research is the diary, which is used to record observations. There is a history of use of diaries within clinical psychology. [20] Examples of psychologists that used them include B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) and Virginia Axline (1911–1988).
Program evaluation. Quasi-experiment. Self-report inventory. Survey, often with a random sample (see survey sampling) Twin study. Research designs vary according to the period (s) of time over which data are collected: Retrospective cohort study: Participants are chosen, then data are collected about their past experiences.
Psychodynamics, also known as psychodynamic psychology, in its broadest sense, is an approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience. It is especially interested in the dynamic relations between conscious ...
Attention or focus, is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli. [ 1] It is the selective concentration on discrete information, either subjectively or objectively. William James (1890) wrote that "Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several ...