SENSORY PRECONDITIONING
It is a form of Pavlovian conditioning by pairing 2 neutral stimuli as well as pairing one of those stimuli…
SEX TYPING
any behaviour that results from socialisation about what a male of female should do.
SEXUAL TRAUMA
It is a disturbing experiences relating to sex, such as rape and other sex offences. It is just like a…
SKILL LEARNING
the learning of a task to give accuracy, speed and performance after a high degree of practice. Skills may be…
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
Social constructionism is associated with post-modernism when any knowledge of reality is in fact a construct of culture, language and…
SOCIAL JUSTICE NORM
This norm states that people should be helped by others only if they deserve to be helped. Compare reciprocity norm;…
SOCIAL SCIENCE
A number of disciplines that are concerned with social interactions of people that is studied from a research and scientific…
SOCIOGENIC HYPOTHESIS
the ideal that social conditions are the major cause of mental and behavioural disorders.
SOMATOGRAPHY
a variety of body visualisation techniques used in engineering and equipment design.
SPATIAL NEGLECT
a disorder where a person has trouble in recognising and using space. This occurs mainly on a person's left side.…
SPEECH FUNCTIONS
These are the reasons for speech such as communication and to maintain social relationships. See speech act.
S-R LEARNING MODEL
a hypothesis that says learning leads to forming stimulus-response connections and is used in Pavlovian conditioning. In instrumental conditioning, the…
STATE THEORIES OF HYPNOSIS
This theory says a hypnotic induction evokes a unique altered state of consciousness in the participant. You can compare non-state…
STIMULUS ONSET ASYNCHRONY (SOA)
the time it takes for one stimulus to end and another to start. Compare interstimulus interval.
STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY
Is a family psychotherapy that gives a modus for analytical approach to family problems that goes from the assumption that…
SUBLIMINAL PRIMING
It is the stimulations on the unconscious and it increases the probability of later occurrence as well as the related…
SURFACE TRAITS
sum of 35 individual traits that can be directly observed from the patient's conduct. These traits are consistent with not…