SELECTIVE ATTENTION
Process whereby one pays attention only to messages that address a need or interest or are consistent with the individual's…
PRIVATE EVENT
A private event is experienced only by one person. It is described as private activity, thought or experience. It can…
PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
An action that is constructive, positive and beneficial to society as a whole. Prosocial behavior can benefit a single individual…
PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY
Pioneered by 1970's psychologists Shneidman and Earberow and medical examiner Murphy of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, psychological autopsy…
REGULATORY BEHAVIOR
Efforts of organisms which are aimed at achieving physiological balance by maintaining basic, primary needs.
REVERSE TOLERANCE
Generally in psychoactive drugs (especially central nervous system stimulants), the tendency of increased sensitivity in the body wherein repeated doses…
SALIENCE HYPOTHESIS
The standard principle of perceptual experience dependent upon which particularly salient stimuli (items, individuals, meanings, and so forth) should be…
SELECTIVE INATTENTION
Act of ignoring or otherwise screening out of stimuli that are threatening, anxiety-producing, or felt to be unimportant. Conscious or…
SELF-CONFRONTATION
where we examine our own behaviours and attitudes to make a change we may need to make. By doing this…
SELF-PERCEPTION
a person's view of themselves and of any mental or physical attribute that makes up the self. Also called a…
SINGLE-CASE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
a repeated measures design where a single person, group or sampling unit is observed over time. Also called intrasubject replication…
SOCIAL LOAFING
where a person reduces their effort when working in a social situation. Compare social facilitation. See social interference.
SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS
These are the environmental conditions that play a part in adaptive and healthy behaviour and wellbeing or just the opposite.…