SENSORY PATHWAY
a route that nerve impulses follow when going from a sensory organ to a sensory area of the brain. Read…
SEVERITY ERROR
a rating error where ratings are consistently overly negative especially with the regard to sex-influenced character to the performance or…
SEXUAL TENSION
An anxious and restlessness that is associated with the sex drive and the normal release of sexual energy.
SIMON EFFECT
seen in a 2 choice task where the response is faster if the location of the stimulus is better than…
SKELETAL AGE
A measure of the maturity of our skeleton that can be the same, less or more than our real age.
SOCIAL COMPARISON THEORY
This states that people evaluate their own abilities and attitude relative to other peoples. We compare ourselves with others. In…
SOCIAL JUDGMENT THEORY
a theory dealing with attitude change that postulates the magnitude of persuasion that is produced by a certain message depends…
SOCIAL SANCTION
a punishment put on person who is member of the group and have violated a rule or standard of the…
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES)
The position of a person or group on the socioeconomic scale that is determined by a combination of economic and…
SOMATOGNOSIA
the awareness we have of the parts of our body. The opposite, the denial of our body parts is called…
SPECULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
view that is based on speculation and not research and experiments. Also read armchair psychology; rational psychology.
SPURIOUS CORRELATION
the situation where variables are correlated through their common relationship with one or more other variables but not through a…
STIMULUS GENERALIZATION
Is the effect of conditioning which removes the discrimination between two stimuli and responsible for evoking the same response. If…
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Is a term which comprises of any theory in psychology that tells that the organization of mind and personality which…
SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION
It is a registration of the stimuli which is too weak or too quick to be able to influence the…
SURFACE STRUCTURE (S-STRUCTURE)
theoretical approach invented by the Noam Chomsky which states that spoken or written sentence is opposite to intrinsic frame. The…
SYMPHOROPHILIA
Sexual interest and arousal derived from the stage of managing a disaster or similar occurrence. A person with symphorophilia may…