SOCIAL AGENCY
These are the agencies that provide health, welfare and rehabilitation services. The aim is to improve quality of life.
SOCIAL INHIBITION
a restraint on person's feelings and expressions in the belief that others may disapprove of their behaviour. See audience effect.
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.
SUBJECTIVITY
It is the ability of interpreting the data or to make judgment by using the experience, beliefs and feeling. It…
SUPERSTITIOUS BEHAVIOR
Type of the reaction to certain situations/impulses that gets so embedded in individual's course of action that he repeats it…
TANGENTIALITY
it is a condition in which person experienced flight of ideas and unable to focus on main point. The inability…
SELF-EFFICACY
a capacity to bring about a desired result. To bring desired results by performing in an efficient way is known…
SELF-REPORT BIAS
This problem arises when people do a self-report and try to make a good impression of them or are unsure…
SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL
Null hypothesis significance testing. the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true. The probability of a type…
SOCIAL APPROVAL
the positive appraisal and acceptance of a person by a social group. It can include compliments, praise, etc. Compare it…
SOCIAL JUDGMENT THEORY
a theory dealing with attitude change that postulates the magnitude of persuasion that is produced by a certain message depends…
SPLIT-HALF RELIABILITY
the measure of the internal consistency of a test, obtained by correlating responses on one half of the test with…
STIMULUS DISCRIMINATION
being able to distinguish between different stimuli. See discrimination.
SUBLIMATION
In the psychoanalytic theory, it is a defence method which result from the unacceptable aggressive and sexual drivers but it…
SUPPORT GROUP
Group that contains individuals with similar problems, who meet on a regular basis to share problems and get support and…
TARDIVE DYSKINESIA
the onset of this movement disorder is experienced when continuous use of antipsychotic drug is discontinued. Patients having Mood disorder…
SELF-ACTIVITY
The decision to carry out actions you have thought about yourself and not been told to do. Such activity is…