SALIENCE HYPOTHESIS
The standard principle of perceptual experience dependent upon which particularly salient stimuli (items, individuals, meanings, and so forth) should be…
SECOND-DEGREE RELATIVE
Individual who is related to you by another individual, without whom you would have no relation to the other. Examples…
PRIVATE EVENT
A private event is experienced only by one person. It is described as private activity, thought or experience. It can…
PRONOUN REVERSAL
Observed in children with autistic disorder, this speech phenomenon causes children to refer to themselves in the second or third…
PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy strong on psychoanalytical tradition; viewing individuals as reacting to unconscious forces. Common traits of the psychodynamic approach are an…
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy is a service provided by a trained psychotherapist in an effort to recognize and treat mental, emotional and behavioral…
RATIONAL LEARNING
Learning through clear understanding of the material and understanding the relationship between the components of the material
RECONSTRUCTION
During psychoanalysis, the review and examination of past events which have resulted in current emotional problems. Also, the analytical rebuilding…
RESISTANCE TO EXTINCTION
The perseverance of any conditioned response in the face of extinction.
ROLE CONFUSION
Doubt regarding a particular social or group task. Gender role behavior patterns typically correlated with the opposite gender. See also:…
SECURE ATTACHMENT
Beneficial parent-child relationship, wherein the child exhibits assurance any time the mother or father is available, demonstrates minor stress whenever…
Divorced Families and the Programs That Work for Them
In 2004, most people in the United States had married only once, with 58 percent of women and 54 percent…
SELF-AFFIRMATION
1. The behaviour of expressing a positive attitude towards to yourself. 2. Psychotherapy. A positive statement about ourselves that we…
SELF-IMAGE
how we see ourselves and gives us a sense of our personality and our success in relationships and our wellbeing.…
SEMANTIC PARAPHASIA
a form of paraphasia where speech is fairly fluent but objects are given the wrong but a similar name. Semantic…
SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
the development towards being sexually mature in behaviour and attitudes from infancy through puberty to adulthood. See psychosexual development.
SIX-HOUR RETARDED CHILD
the name given to a child who appears to be slow in school but functions normally outside of school. This…
SOCIAL DEFICIT
an inability or an unwillingness to act in accordance to age, physical condition and intelligence. It can reduce a person's…