SYMBOLIC REWARD
The prize that doesn't have significant material value but is nevertheless extremely valuable to a person receiving it. In psychology,…
SYNDROME OF OBSTINATE PROGRESSION
It is a syndrome where there is the continuous forward of the progression of the leg movement which may be…
SYSTEMATIC RATIONAL RESTRUCTURING
It is a system in the psychotherapy by which the client will be encouraged to think about the situations that…
SEXUAL ATTITUDES
These are a person's beliefs about sexuality shown by a person's behaviour and are based on cultural views and previous…
SHAM FEEDING
In animal research where an animal eats but it is then removed by a tube in its oesophagus.
SHEEP-GOAT EFFECT
an effect seen in parapsychology experiments where the sheep, people who believe in it, and the goats, those who don't,…
SIGNAL ANXIETY
Psychoanalytic theory. The anxiety arising from a response to internal conflict or an impulse and acts a sign of impending…
SILVER-RUSSELL SYNDROME
congenital disorder that features short stature, hypertrophy on one side of the body and raised gonadotropin hormones without sexual maturity.…
SIMPLE SCHIZOPHRENIA
one of 4 types of schizophrenia and features a slow withdrawal from social contact, los of initiative and emotional apathy.…
SINGLE BLIND
an experiment procedure where the people involved don't know of the treatment, manipulation or type drug administered. Compare double blind;…