SEPARATION DISTRESS
Separation distress is the anxiety and discomfort a person feels when the person they are attached to the leaves. For…
SERIAL EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH
A hypothesised process of looking for a target item in short term memory.
SEVERE MENTAL RETARDATION
The diagnostic category that applies to people with IQs of 20 to 30 and is about 70% of people with…
SEX OFFENSE
an act of sexual nature that is against the law. The person is called a sex offender. Some include violence…
SELF-AWARENESS
1. see self-understanding. 2. seen in animal behaviour. To know about one's self. Human beings are more likely to be…
SELF-CONTROL
a person's ability to control emotions and behaviour and to limit our impulses. See self- discipline; self-regulation; self-controlled. Having this…
SELF-DEVELOPMENT
when we grow and or improve our abilities and qualities. The gradual movement of one's capabilities, traits, features and qualities…
SELF-EXTINCTION
Psychoanalytic theory. A form of neurotic behaviour where a person who is lacking experience of himself as an entity as…
SELF-IDENTIFICATION
how we see ourselves in terms of white, Italian, mother, lucky, clever, etc.
SELF-MUTILATION
an act of disfiguring yourself by harming yourself by cutting or some other form of wounding.
SELF-REFLECTION
The examination and contemplation of our thoughts and actions. Look on the reflective consciousness.
SELF-STATEMENT TRAINING (SST)
the use of positive reinforcement about ourselves and is used in self-instructional training.
SEMANTIC DISSOCIATION
a distortion between a word and its meaning featured in thought disorders seen in schizophrenics. The meaning and the syntax…
SENSORIMOTOR MEMORY
Sensorimotor memory is a memory of a traumatic experience that is encoded rather than verbal. These episodes are usually occurred…
SENSORY CONVERSION SYMPTOMS
a conversion disorder where we lose a sense of touch or pain, have blindness or double vision, tinnitus, deafness. Double…