Neurology

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SEQUENTIAL EFFECT

Choice-reaction tasks. It is the influence of a preceding trial on the performance of the current trail.

SEXUAL ATTRACTION

a first step in mating behaviour of many animals where stimuli are emitted to attract the opposite sex.

SHARED ENVIRONMENT

Behaviour genetic analysis. Aspects of the environment that people living together will share and make be more similar than just

SINGLE-CASE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

a repeated measures design where a single person, group or sampling unit is observed over time. Also called intrasubject replication

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

SPONTANEOUS SPEECH

Speech without responding to a direct question.

STANDARD

A basis for evaluating the worth of something and how it should be. It is just like a general idea

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

SYLLOGISM

kind of logical mental process where one conclusion in combination with another one brings forward the third logical conclusion. a

SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION

a reduced ability of a synapse to transmit a neural signal.