SOURCE MONITORING
This determines the origin of a person's memories, beliefs and knowledge. Also called reality monitoring.
SPECIFIC TRANSFER
using the skills from task in a similar task where the skills are relevant. Compare general transfer.
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.
SUPERTASTER
a person with a low gustatory threshold and shows a strong response to moderate taste stimuli.
SYNAPTIC PRUNING
It is a neurodevelopment process that takes place before the birth and before the second decade of a human being…
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…
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…