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SOCIAL PLAY

1. Play that involves interacting with others for sport and for fun. 2. Patterns of play that is identified by

SOCIALIZATION

1. The process by which we learn social skills. 2. The process that employees adjust to a working environment. 3.

SPECIFICITY

1. the quality of being unique from everything else. 2. A probability that a person will test negative for a

STANDARDIZATION GROUP

a sample group to establish the norms for the population it is representing. It is also known as standardization sample.

SUBCULTURE

it is just like a community having the main characteristics of one specific culture and some other beliefs and ideas

SURPLUS ENERGY THEORY

a hypothesis that children and young animals engage in locomotor play due to excess energy. See play.

SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION

getting data in well ordered manner that will give reliable information about something.

SELF-CONFIDENCE

1. Our self-assurance in trusting our abilities, capacities and judgements. 2. the belief that we can meet the demands of

SELF-MANAGEMENT

1. It is about how we control our own behaviour. 2 A behaviour therapy program where people are trained to

SENSORIMOTOR STAGE

Jean Piaget's theory, the first stage of cognitive development to our 2nd birthday. Sensory and motor processes are developed and

SHORT PORTABLE MENTAL STATUS QUESTIONNAIRE (SPMSQ)

Short portable mental status questionnaire is a short questionnaire that is used to screen older adults for dementia signs and

SMALL-N EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

an experimental design for a small number of sampling units.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

the gradual gaining of skills, relationships and attitudes that enables a person to interact in society.

SOCIAL PUNISHMENT

any negative stimulus like shunning, emotional withdrawal or sign of disapproval. Compare social reinforcement.

SOCIALIZED DELINQUENCY

a violation of law by people under 18 years old where they are stuck in a subculture of gangs that

SPECIFICITY DOCTRINE OF TRAITS

This proposes that traits of personality are expressed in respect to classes of social context rather than global situations.

STANDARDIZED INSTRUCTIONS

a list of instructions for all participants that is the same for all people.

SUBJECT

The participant (either a human or non human) that is taken for the purpose of doing research. It also refers

SURVEY

1. Studying a group of participants selected from the population that are measured and analysed. 2. to carry out a

TABOO (TABU)

A social, spiritual, moral or ethical restriction that makes a man to restraint from a particular behaviour, person or an