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.…
SENSORY DEPRIVATION
Sensory reduction is a reduction in sensory stimulation where it is brought to a minimum level due to an environmental…
SEQUENCE EFFECT
seen in repeated measures designs and is the effect of treatments being carried out in a set order.
SEXUAL ATTITUDES
These are a person's beliefs about sexuality shown by a person's behaviour and are based on cultural views and previous…
SINGLE BLIND
an experiment procedure where the people involved don't know of the treatment, manipulation or type drug administered. Compare double blind;…