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.
SOCIAL DRIVE
the drive we have to establish relationships with other people. See affiliative drive; gregariousness.
SOCIAL TRAP
a social dilemma where a person maximises their goals over the goal of the community or society as a whole.…
SPECIFICITY
1. the quality of being unique from everything else. 2. A probability that a person will test negative for a…
STATE ANXIETY
the anxiety in response to a specific situation perceived to be dangerous or threatening. Compare it with trait anxiety.
STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING
Is a type of sampling conducted randomly within different strata of the population; the sample obtained is known as stratified…
SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION
It is a threshold which is below the required intensity which was meant to elicit a certain response. It is…
TARDIVE DYSKINESIA
the onset of this movement disorder is experienced when continuous use of antipsychotic drug is discontinued. Patients having Mood disorder…
SELF-AWARENESS
1. see self-understanding. 2. seen in animal behaviour. To know about one's self. Human beings are more likely to be…
SELF-MANAGEMENT
1. It is about how we control our own behaviour. 2 A behaviour therapy program where people are trained to…
SEMANTIC GENERALIZATION
This results from Pavlovian conditioning where a word or phrase acts as a stimulus because it shares a similar or…
SIGNAL ANXIETY
Psychoanalytic theory. The anxiety arising from a response to internal conflict or an impulse and acts a sign of impending…
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
1. The acceptance of a person into a group. 2. The absence of social disapproval.