SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
Self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief or expectation that will bring about its fulfilment. You can have a look on Pygmalion…
SELF-INFLICTED WOUND
a physical injury or wound we do to ourselves resulting from self-injury behaviour or attempted suicide.
SELF-PERCEPTION
a person's view of themselves and of any mental or physical attribute that makes up the self. Also called a…
SELF-REGULATORY RESOURCES THEORY
a model that states self-regulation is dependent on a global and finite pool of resources that can be depleted by…
SEMANTIC GENERALIZATION
This results from Pavlovian conditioning where a word or phrase acts as a stimulus because it shares a similar or…
SENSITIVE DEPENDENCE
a tendency for dynamic systems to be sensitive to initial conditions that can diverge over the time. Read about the…
SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS
a hearing loss due to pathology of the inner ear or the nerve pathways from the inner ear to the…
SENSORY DEPRIVATION
Sensory reduction is a reduction in sensory stimulation where it is brought to a minimum level due to an environmental…
SENSORY NEGLECT
an ability to attend to sensory information from one side of the body usually from a result of a brain…
SERIAL METHOD
A method of experimentation where cues or stimuli are presented in a set sequence.
SEROTONIN RECEPTOR
These are the receptors binding and responding to serotonin. They are in the brain and peripheral areas.
SEX CHROMOSOME
These are the chromosomes that determine the sex of an individual. A person with XX chromosomes is a girl and…
SEX REVERSAL ON Y (SRY)
the area of the "Y" chromosome that determines the sex of a person. See sex differentiation.
SELF-ACTIVITY
The decision to carry out actions you have thought about yourself and not been told to do. Such activity is…