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.…
SEMANTIC COUNSELING
counselling based on the meanings and interpretations that are related to our adjustment.
SEMANTIC THERAPY
a psychotherapy where people are trained to look at the undesired word habits and distorted ideas so they are able…
SENSATE FOCUS THERAPY
an approach to sexual dysfunction where people are trained to focus attention on their natural and biological sensual cues to…
SENSE OF SELF
our feeling of identity, uniqueness and self-direction. Read about the self-concept; self-image; sense of identity.
SENSORIMOTOR ARC
a reflex arc of an afferent sensory branch and an efferent sensory branch.
SENSORY BIAS
a display of a sensory preference that may relate to species signals. It is about the biasness an organism has…
SENSORY INTEGRATION DYSFUNCTION
where we have trouble in organising and processing sensory input.