RESERVE CAPACITY
Discrepancy between a subject's maximal ability to perform a given psychological exercise and the actual performance of that exercise.
ROMANTIC LOVE
Love relationship wherein intimate affection and passionate fervor are key components. While the adored party is commonly appreciated and frequently…
SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL TRAINING
Cognitive behaviour therapy aiming to modify maladaptive beliefs and to develop new skills. See self-statement training. This training is not…
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 RESPONSIBILITY NORM
a social standard that says we will help people in need. Compare reciprocity norm; social justice norm.
SPURIOUS CORRELATION
the situation where variables are correlated through their common relationship with one or more other variables but not through a…
STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY
Is a family psychotherapy that gives a modus for analytical approach to family problems that goes from the assumption that…
SELF-INVENTORY
a question are used by a person to check the characteristics they perceive to apply to themselves.
SITUATIONAL ATTRIBUTION
1. Attribution theory. The attributes of your behaviour to the external or circumstantial causes. 2. The ascription of an event…
SOCIAL SCIENCE
A number of disciplines that are concerned with social interactions of people that is studied from a research and scientific…
SYMPTOMATOLOGY
1. The combination of signs, markers or indications of a disease or disorder. 2. The scientific study of the markers…
SELF-OBJECTIFICATION
how we achieve objective knowledge about our self and our understanding of our self.
SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS
These are the conditions in the environment existing before and after an organism's response and influence. It is one of…
SOCIAL STATISTICS
the application of statistical methods to understanding social problems and issues. See demography.
STANDARD SCORE
the score that is obtained from an original score by subtracting the mean value of all scores in the batch…
SUBJECT VARIABLE
The variable which is related to individual in the research is called subject variable. This variable is not usually changed…