SELF-DEMAND SCHEDULE
a schedule featuring demand for feeding by a child for example that is not a fixed schedule. This schedule is…
SELF-ENHANCEMENT MOTIVE
a desire to think well of ourselves and to be well thought by others. just like to wish to be…
SELF-HELP GROUP IDEOLOGY
The set of beliefs about the best way a group of people can help each other with their problems and…
SELFISH HERD
Seen in animal behaviour where a group of animals always mange to keep themself away from any danger by placing…
SELF-RATING
1. See self-concept. 2. Reporting and describing the characteristics we see in ourselves.
SEMANTIC PRIMITIVE
a fundamental building block thought to be involved with meaning of words. In young children, semantic primitives are thought to…
SENSE OF FREE WILL
a sense to do as we please and not forced to act a certain way. It is opposite to the…
SENSORY AREA
the area of the cerebral cortex that gets input from sensory neurons via the thalamus. There are primary and secondary…
SENSORY HOMUNCULUS
figurative representation of the relative sizes of the sensory areas of the brain. The form of this model is distorted…
SENSORY PRECONDITIONING
It is a form of Pavlovian conditioning by pairing 2 neutral stimuli as well as pairing one of those stimuli…
SENTINEL BEHAVIOR
Animal behaviour. It is about a member of a group who will watch out for the predators and give a…
SEQUESTRATION
a process of separating the unacceptable or pathological aspects of our personality from the normal part.
SERIAL-MEMORY SEARCH
memory retrieval process where a short term memory is examined in the order it was placed into memory.