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SELF-IMAGE

how we see ourselves and gives us a sense of our personality and our success in relationships and our wellbeing.

SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Attain the insight into your attitudes, motives, defences, reactions, weaknesses and strengths. Also called self-awareness.

SIB-PAIR METHOD

a genetic technique to find the extent of inherited psychiatric factors among blood relatives as compared to the general population.

SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE

1. The acceptance of a person into a group. 2. The absence of social disapproval.

SOCIAL IDENTITY

1. These are the personal qualities that a person has and displays to others consistently that they part of your

SOCIAL SELF

1. The aspects of the self that are important to social relations. 2. A person's characteristic behaviour in social situations.

SPECULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

view that is based on speculation and not research and experiments. Also read armchair psychology; rational psychology.

STIMULATION

1. The act of increasing levels of activity. 2. Part of perception. See stimulus.

SUBJECT VARIABLE

The variable which is related to individual in the research is called subject variable. This variable is not usually changed

SUICIDE

Action aimed to take one's own life. It usually is tried when person is going through depressive episode, but it

SYMPTOMATOLOGY

1. The combination of signs, markers or indications of a disease or disorder. 2. The scientific study of the markers

SELF-ASSERTION

the act of putting forward your own opinions or to express your needs, rights and wishes. In this way person

SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR

the intention to harm you.

SELF-WORTH

our evaluation of our self as being a worthwhile person.

SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL

Null hypothesis significance testing. the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true. The probability of a type

SOCIAL AGE (SA)

an estimate of a person's capabilities in social situations that are relative to normal standards. In clinical situations with young

SOCIAL INCENTIVE

an inducement to behave in an approved way that involves offering interpersonal rewards like acceptance, inclusion, approval that quality of

SOCIAL SITUATION

combination of all social factors that come into play at any one time.

SPLIT-HALF RELIABILITY

the measure of the internal consistency of a test, obtained by correlating responses on one half of the test with

STIMULUS

Any external or internal situation, event or agent that arise a response from animal or human. Stimulus can be of