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SENIUM

a term for the period of old age.

SENSE OF PRESENCE

1. The sense of being in particular place and time. 2. Understanding your current existence. 3. Parapsychology. The awareness of…

SENSORIMOTOR APHASIA

a sensory or receptive aphasia where our ability to understand and perceive language is impaired. Have a look on global…

SENSORY AWARENESS TRAINING 1

1. A method used in sensate focus therapy to help a person be more aware of their own feelings and…

SENSORY INTEGRATION

a neural process involved in perceiving, organising and evaluating sensory information across the modalities and producing an adaptive response. To…

SENSORY SPOT

a spot on the skin that is highly sensitive to thermal, tactile and pain stimuli.

SEPARATED DISPLAY

Ergonomics. It is a machine display that separates primary as well as secondary information to highlight the most important pieces…

SERENDIPITY

a knack some people have of making a fortune discovery purely by accident.

SERIES

a collection of items that are arranged in order.

SET ZONE

a range of variables that a feedback system tries to maintain. See critical range.

SEX IDENTITY

1. The biological determined sexual condition of a person. 2. The learned identity that relates to a person sex. See…

SEX-LIMITED

trait or anomaly expressed by one sex and is determined by genes rather than sex chromosomes.

SELF-ANALYSIS

1. Exploring the self for a better understanding your personal thoughts and emotions. 2. The attempt to apply psychoanalytical principles…

SELF-CONSISTENCY PERSPECTIVE OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY

a variation of cognitive dissonance theory stating it is likely to occur when an inconsistency involves an aspect of self.…

SELF-DESTRUCTIVENESS

These are behaviours that are damaging and not in our best interest. The behaviour can be repetitive and resist treatment…

SELF-EVIDENT

something that is perceived to be true without the need for any other sort of evidence to make it true.

SELF-HYPNORELAXATION

a form of relaxation technique where a person responds to their own suggestions.

SELF-MANAGEMENT

1. It is about how we control our own behaviour. 2 A behaviour therapy program where people are trained to…

SELF-REFERENCE EFFECT

a tendency for people to have an enhanced memory for any stimuli that relates to them.

SELF-SERVING BIAS

how we interpret an event in a way that gives us credit for success and denies any responsibility for failure.…