Neurology

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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.

SUBTEST

individual part of the test or test batch, that has distinctive subject.

SUPERTASTER

a person with a low gustatory threshold and shows a strong response to moderate taste stimuli.

SYMBOL

idea, element, or picture that exemplifies other thing/idea. It can be logo, flag, picture. In literature symbolic words are used

SYNAPTIC PRUNING

It is a neurodevelopment process that takes place before the birth and before the second decade of a human being

TACHYPSYCHIA

altered perception of time. See psychological time.

TASK-FOCUSED THINKING

the thought related to a sole task. To focus obnly on the task that is being undertaken instead of thinking

SELF-AFFIRMATION

1. The behaviour of expressing a positive attitude towards to yourself. 2. Psychotherapy. A positive statement about ourselves that we

SELF-FOCUS

1. An ability a person has to direct conscious attention on themselves, thoughts, desires and emotions. 2. A person's ability

SELF-TALK

the dialogue that we have with ourselves that can confirm and reinforce both positive and negative beliefs. Athletes are trained

SENILE MIOSIS

a reduction in the size of a person's pupil in old age caused by muscle atrophy that control dilation of

SENSORY HOMUNCULUS

figurative representation of the relative sizes of the sensory areas of the brain. The form of this model is distorted

SERENDIPITY

a knack some people have of making a fortune discovery purely by accident.

SEXUAL CURIOSITY

our curiosity in learning about sex and sexuality.

SHINKEISHITSU

a culture bound syndrome seen in Japan that features obsessions, perfectionism, ambivalence, social withdrawal and hypochondria. It is also seen

SITUATED KNOWLEDGE

the embedded knowledge that is affected by the history, language and values of the person knowing it. The term arises