TABOO (TABU)
A social, spiritual, moral or ethical restriction that makes a man to restraint from a particular behaviour, person or an…
SELF-AFFIRMATION
1. The behaviour of expressing a positive attitude towards to yourself. 2. Psychotherapy. A positive statement about ourselves that we…
SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL TRAINING
Cognitive behaviour therapy aiming to modify maladaptive beliefs and to develop new skills. See self-statement training. This training is not…
SELF-UNDERSTANDING
Attain the insight into your attitudes, motives, defences, reactions, weaknesses and strengths. Also called self-awareness.
SOCIAL DISTANCE
Social distance is actually the degree that a person wants to remain apart from other members of different social groups.…
SOCIAL NORMS
These norms prescribe the appropriate way to respond in social situations but also that which should be avoided. They apply…
SOCIAL THERAPY
the therapeutic and rehabilitive approaches that use the social structure to improve the interpersonal functioning of people.
SPECIFIC PHOBIA
an anxiety disorder that used to be called a simple phobia that was marked by a persistent fear of an…
STANDARDIZED INSTRUCTIONS
a list of instructions for all participants that is the same for all people.
STRANGULATED AFFECT
Is the physical symptom that is seen when a person inhibits a normal discharge of emotion. This theory was advanced…
SUBLIMINAL PRIMING
It is the stimulations on the unconscious and it increases the probability of later occurrence as well as the related…
SURFACE TRAITS
sum of 35 individual traits that can be directly observed from the patient's conduct. These traits are consistent with not…
TANGENTIALITY
it is a condition in which person experienced flight of ideas and unable to focus on main point. The inability…
SELF-ASSERTION
the act of putting forward your own opinions or to express your needs, rights and wishes. In this way person…
SELF-INVENTORY
a question are used by a person to check the characteristics they perceive to apply to themselves.
SIGN TRACKING
found in conditioning behaviour directed towards a stimulus that is paired with a reinforcer.
SNOWBALL SAMPLING
A recruitment method for new participants. The current participants are asked to recommend new people for the study.