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…
SELF-AWARENESS
1. see self-understanding. 2. seen in animal behaviour. To know about one's self. Human beings are more likely to be…
SELF-CONTROL
a person's ability to control emotions and behaviour and to limit our impulses. See self- discipline; self-regulation; self-controlled. Having this…
SELF-DEVELOPMENT
when we grow and or improve our abilities and qualities. The gradual movement of one's capabilities, traits, features and qualities…
SELF-EXTINCTION
Psychoanalytic theory. A form of neurotic behaviour where a person who is lacking experience of himself as an entity as…
SELF-IDENTIFICATION
how we see ourselves in terms of white, Italian, mother, lucky, clever, etc.
SELF-MUTILATION
an act of disfiguring yourself by harming yourself by cutting or some other form of wounding.
SELF-REFLECTION
The examination and contemplation of our thoughts and actions. Look on the reflective consciousness.
SELF-STATEMENT TRAINING (SST)
the use of positive reinforcement about ourselves and is used in self-instructional training.
SEMANTIC DISSOCIATION
a distortion between a word and its meaning featured in thought disorders seen in schizophrenics. The meaning and the syntax…
SENSORIMOTOR MEMORY
Sensorimotor memory is a memory of a traumatic experience that is encoded rather than verbal. These episodes are usually occurred…
SENSORY CONVERSION SYMPTOMS
a conversion disorder where we lose a sense of touch or pain, have blindness or double vision, tinnitus, deafness. Double…
SENSORY LEAKAGE
This can be seen in experiments for ESP where some clues may be given to the subject inadvertently through sensory…