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…
SELF-COMPLETION THEORY
when we use our behaviour to prove to ourselves that we are a certain kind of person. When our behaviour…
SELF-CRITICISM
Used to examine and evaluate our own behaviour and recognising weaknesses, short comings and errors. To criticize one's own self…
SELF-DISCOVERY
a process of looking for your own identity. To discover what a one individual has in his personality and what…
SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY
The theory that states people only have a limited access to the attitudes, beliefs, traits or their psychological states. We…
SELF-REINFORCEMENT
Rewarding ourselves for appropriate behaviour or attaining a goal. also called self-managed reinforcement.
SELF-TERMINATING SEARCH
A search that will end as soon as the target is found. Compare it with the exhaustive search.
SEMANTIC JARGON
a form of receptive aphasia where a person speaks in sentences that have little or no meaning.