SUMNER, FRANCIS CECIL
American psychologist who got his PhD on Clark University back in 1920, as first African American in the USA to…
SUPERIOR OLIVARY COMPLEX
a group of neural cells that assures numerous elements of hearing and is important for the upward and downward hearing…
SUPERTASTER
a person with a low gustatory threshold and shows a strong response to moderate taste stimuli.
SUPPORTIVE-EXPRESSIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
type of psychological treatment that has a goal to bring forward the basic psychological problem (pattern of the problematic behaviour)…
SURVIVAL VALUE
Level to which certain physical or mental attribute can attribute to mating effectiveness. Such attribute have high importance in any…
SWITCH PROCESS
In psychology, course of action where bipolar disorder individual feels the transfer from the depression to manic feel and other…
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Theory in sociology that presents idea that self-perspective is constructed by defining symbolic body language, actual words, physical actions that…
SYMMETRY COMPULSION
a method to arrange different things in a certain way. The symmetry compulsion is normally associated with having an obsession…
SYMPTOM SPECIFICITY
It is the hypothesis that states that people who have the psychosomatic disorder may display some abnormality to the stress…
SYNCHRONIZATION
the pattern of brain wave activity that seems to be coordinated so that neurons oscillate in phase. Read DELTA WAVE…
SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS
a category of disorders coming from psychological factors more than organic factors.
SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
the development towards being sexually mature in behaviour and attitudes from infancy through puberty to adulthood. See psychosexual development.
SEXUAL INHIBITION
a suppressing sexual desire or an inability to feel sexual desire, or to perform. Read also about the hypoactive sexual…
SHAPE CONSTANCY
a type of perpetual constancy where a shape is the same when viewed from different angles.
SHIPLEY INSTITUTE OF LIVING SCALE (SILS)
an assessment of cognitive function with 2 parts. One deals with a person's vocabulary and the other with abstract ideas…