SEPARATION ANXIETY DISORDER
An anxiety disorder showing excessive and persistent anxiety when leaving home or a person. It will have symptoms that include…
SERIAL BEHAVIOR
a sequence of responses that elicit each other in a certain order. It is not a random response. These are…
SEVEN PLUS OR MINUS TWO
the number of items that we hold in short term memory at any time and are accurately perceived and recalled…
SEX INTEREST
the eagerness to engage and participate in discussions, viewings and activities dealing with sexual contact. Also called sexual interest.
SEX-NEGATIVITY
A negative attitude toward any type of sexual behaviour other married sex. Compare sex positivity.
SELF-AS-TARGET EFFECT
a tendency to assume wrongly that other people and events are referring to you. In milder forms this is normal…
SELF-CONTRADICTION
1. Logic. Inconsistencies between the premises of an argument. 2. The inconsistency between 2 or more beliefs, intentions, desires and…
SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
Emphasises the importance of autonomy and intrinsic motivation to produce a healthy adjustment. This theory emphasize on how a person…
SELF-EXTENSION
an investment in ego where things are brought from outside the self that a person feels an affinity with. the…
SELF-IDEAL Q SORT
a technique that is designed to measure the difference between a person's self-concept and their self-ideal. The self-ideal Q sort…
SELF-MONITORING
1. Used in behavioural management where a person will keep a record of behaviour patterns. 2. A personality trait for…
SELF-REFERRAL
when we take ourselves off to a clinic or a practitioner without a referral from somebody else, like an employer,…
SELF-STATEMENT MODIFICATION
a technique to change bad ideas about ourselves that have been uncovered in cognitive behaviour therapy. See self-instructional training.
SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
This used to assess a person's attitude by rating things on a scale of good-bad, hot-cold, large-small and other opposites…
SEMANTOGENIC DISORDER
a mental disorder where a person misinterprets the meanings of words that are coloured by emotions.
SENSATION INCREMENT
Psychophysics. A noticeable increase in the intensity of a sensory experience.
SENSE-RATIOS METHOD
a system of scaling sensory magnitudes by choosing stimuli perceived to be at equal intervals along a scale.
SENSORIMOTOR INTELLIGENCE
in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development that knowledge is obtained from sensory perception and motor actions involving objects in…