SELF-SYSTEM
used to describe a person with a fixed personality based on approved behaviour patterns where disapproved patterns are blocked out.…
SENSORY EXPLOITATION
Sensory exploitation is to use sensory bias to gain a better reproductive success by changing behaviour to be more attractive…
SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING
Processing that occurs in sequence and not altogether. See single channel model. Compare parallel processing.
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
These are the actions that lead to reproduction and stimulation of sexual organs for satisfaction without conception. It can orientation,…
SHEEP-GOAT EFFECT
an effect seen in parapsychology experiments where the sheep, people who believe in it, and the goats, those who don't,…
SINGLE-EPISODE DEPRESSION
Single episode depression is an episode where a person not with a history of depressive episodes has one. Treatment is…
SOCIAL ANCHORING
basing your attitudes, actions and values on the position by taken by other people. Social anchoring implies a person's lack…
SOCIAL FACILITATION
when we improve our performance in a task when other people are present. This could be due to a heightened…
SOCIALIZATION
1. The process by which we learn social skills. 2. The process that employees adjust to a working environment. 3.…
SOURCE MONITORING
This determines the origin of a person's memories, beliefs and knowledge. Also called reality monitoring.
SPECIFIC TRANSFER
using the skills from task in a similar task where the skills are relevant. Compare general transfer.
SPONTANEOUS TRAIT INFERENCE
a judgement about a person's personality traits that are made automatically with no conscious intent.
STANDARD DEVIATION
a measure of dispersion in scores, whether they are narrowly or broadly dispersed around the mean.
STIMULATION
1. The act of increasing levels of activity. 2. Part of perception. See stimulus.
STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING
Is a type of sampling conducted randomly within different strata of the population; the sample obtained is known as stratified…
SUBJECTIVE COMPETITIVE SITUATION
individual's perception, assessment and acceptance to a situation when he is meeting the criteria of objective competitive situation.