SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
Emphasises the importance of autonomy and intrinsic motivation to produce a healthy adjustment. This theory emphasize on how a person…
SELF-EXTENSION
an investment in ego where things are brought from outside the self that a person feels an affinity with. the…
SELF-IDEAL Q SORT
a technique that is designed to measure the difference between a person's self-concept and their self-ideal. The self-ideal Q sort…
SELF-MONITORING
1. Used in behavioural management where a person will keep a record of behaviour patterns. 2. A personality trait for…
SELF-REFERRAL
when we take ourselves off to a clinic or a practitioner without a referral from somebody else, like an employer,…
SELF-STATEMENT MODIFICATION
a technique to change bad ideas about ourselves that have been uncovered in cognitive behaviour therapy. See self-instructional training.
SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
This used to assess a person's attitude by rating things on a scale of good-bad, hot-cold, large-small and other opposites…
SEMANTOGENIC DISORDER
a mental disorder where a person misinterprets the meanings of words that are coloured by emotions.
SENSATION INCREMENT
Psychophysics. A noticeable increase in the intensity of a sensory experience.
SENSE-RATIOS METHOD
a system of scaling sensory magnitudes by choosing stimuli perceived to be at equal intervals along a scale.
SENSORIMOTOR INTELLIGENCE
in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development that knowledge is obtained from sensory perception and motor actions involving objects in…
SENSORY CONSCIOUSNESS
sensory stimuli with visual, tactile, olfactory, and auditory and taste qualities. Compare higher order consciousness.
SENSORY INTERACTION
the integration of processes to perform a task. For more understanding, read about the cross modal association; intersensory perception; perceptual…
SENSORY SUMMATION
Basically sensory summation is the combining of sensory inputs at different levels of the nervous system. For concept clarity, have…
SEPARATION DISTRESS
Separation distress is the anxiety and discomfort a person feels when the person they are attached to the leaves. For…
SERIAL EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH
A hypothesised process of looking for a target item in short term memory.
SEVERE MENTAL RETARDATION
The diagnostic category that applies to people with IQs of 20 to 30 and is about 70% of people with…
SEX OFFENSE
an act of sexual nature that is against the law. The person is called a sex offender. Some include violence…