SOCIAL DRIVE
the drive we have to establish relationships with other people. See affiliative drive; gregariousness.
SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
Social neuroscience is a new discipline that aims to integrate social and biological approaches to human behaviour. They are often…
SOCIAL ZONE
Actually, social zone is a zone of distance between 2 people like an attorney and his client. You can compare…
SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH
an approach to designing and evaluating work systems. It is based on a theory that roles and tasks, technology and…
SOURCE CONFUSION
Source confusion is an attribute seen in different people's accounts of the same event after hearing people speak about the…
SPECIAL FACTOR
an ability used in cognitive processes such as a mathematical ability. It was proposed in 1904 by British psychologist and…
SPLIT BRAIN
brain that has been cut into 2 hemispheres and is used on animals in experiments to see what part does…
SUBSTANTIA NIGRA
Area of grey matter in the middle brain, called after its dark pigment. It sends dopaminergic neurons to basal ganglia.…
SUPERSTITION
1. A belief that is founded on the operation of supernatural or magical forces. 2. An unscientific belief that is…
SYNAPTIC CLEFT
a gap in a synapse between the terminal butt on one neuron and the dendrite of a neighbouring neuron. Also…
TABULA RASA CONCEPT
According to this concept, mind is evolved as blank tablet when a person is born and everything is written over…
TASK IDENTITY
These are the motivating features of a task that are specified in a job characteristics model of Richard Hackman and…
SELF-DISCREPANCY
the incongruousness between different aspects of our own self-concepts. To have a difference between various concepts of one's ideologies due…
SELF-REPORT BIAS
This problem arises when people do a self-report and try to make a good impression of them or are unsure…
SEMANTICITY
1. The property of a language that allows it to represent events, ideas, objects and actions and to communicate meaning.2.…