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.
SENSATIONALISM
Philosophy. The position that all knowledge comes from sensations and all abstract ideas are related to elementary sense impressions. Read…
SENSITIVE ONE
a point on the body that is very responsive to stimulus such as touch or pain.
SENSORY NERVE
a nerve that sends impulses from a sense organ to the central nervous system.
SENSUS COMMUNIS
The thought of Aristotle, this is the mental faculty that takes information from the 5 senses and integrates them. Latin…
SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM
triangular shaped translucent membrane that separates the anterior horns of the lateral ventricles of the brain.
SERIAL POLYGAMY
This term applies to a person who repeatedly gets married and divorced many times in a life time.