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…
SYNTHETIC APPROACH
It is synthesizing or combining of different processes, components or system. It is used as a means of learning or…
TANGENTIALITY
it is a condition in which person experienced flight of ideas and unable to focus on main point. The inability…
SELF-CONSTRUAL
a specific label of the self in connection with independent self-construal and interdependent ones. This term is specified for locating…
SELF-PROMOTION
how we make ourselves look good to others by highlighting our competence and abilities.
SEMANTIC JARGON
a form of receptive aphasia where a person speaks in sentences that have little or no meaning.
SIMPLE EFFECTS
Seen in factorial design this is the comparison of group means of one factor at a set level of the…
SLEEP CYCLE
The cyclical pattern of sleep stages where a time of slow wave sleep if followed by REM sleep.