SNOWBALL SAMPLING
A recruitment method for new participants. The current participants are asked to recommend new people for the study.
SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY
a theory that envisions social interactions as an exchange where the people seek to maximise their benefits within the limits…
SOCIAL PERCEPTION
Social perception is basically is a person's awareness of social phenomena and the ability to infer motives and values from…
SOCIAL-COGNITIVE THEORY
A theoretical framework where the functions of personality are explained by cognitive contents and processes acquired through social interaction.
SOFT DETERMINISM
Soft determinism is position where all events, human actions and choices all have causes but free will and responsibility are…
SOURCE MEMORY
Being able to remember the origin of a memory or of the knowledge of how we came to have that…
SPECIES-SPECIFIC DEFENSE REACTION (SSDR)
a defence reaction to adverse stimuli when another is absent. This bias determines the rate of learning an organism may…
STIGMATOPHILIA
a sexual interest in and the arousal by a partner who has tattoos or scars in the genital area.
STRANGULATED AFFECT
Is the physical symptom that is seen when a person inhibits a normal discharge of emotion. This theory was advanced…
SUBJECT VARIABLE
The variable which is related to individual in the research is called subject variable. This variable is not usually changed…
SUBSTITUTES FOR LEADERSHIP THEORY
approach which states that leader is not important for the efficient group action in certain working situation. Read also situational…
SUPERSTITIOUS BEHAVIOR
Type of the reaction to certain situations/impulses that gets so embedded in individual's course of action that he repeats it…
TACHISTOSCOPE
a device which displays the object, pictures, numbers and words on the screen. It is also known as T scope.…
TASK STRUCTURE
it is the structure in which the means to the end; everything is structured properly to perform a task. To…
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
The realisation of what you are capable of. Also called self-realisation. See humanistic psychology; Maslow's Motivational Hierarchy. By doing this,…
SELF-ENHANCEMENT MOTIVE
a desire to think well of ourselves and to be well thought by others. just like to wish to be…