SEXUAL DISORDER
any impairment in behaviour or function. See sexual and gender identity disorders.
SEXUAL LATENCY
Psychoanalytic theory. The time from 6 years of age to puberty when we have no interest in sex.
SEXUAL SELECTION
Sexual selection is a theoretical mechanism for the developing of anatomical and behavioural differences between the two sexes. It was…
SHAKOW, DAVID
US psychologist, 1901 to 1981. He did research into motor performance of people with schizophrenia. He also worked to professionalise…
SHARED ENVIRONMENT
Behaviour genetic analysis. Aspects of the environment that people living together will share and make be more similar than just…
SHOCK PROBATION
the term applied to a jail sentence that id designed to shock a young person into doing the right thing…
SIALORRHEA
where a person produces an excess of saliva and can occur in Parkinson's disease and from taking clozapine.
SIGN SYSTEM
Sign system is an epithet for psychotherapy that highlights the dependence of the discipline on language. This system was basically…
SIMPLE FACTORIAL DESIGN
an experimental design where 2 or more levels of each variable are observed in combination 2 or more levels of…
SIMULTANEOUS DISCRIMINATION
Used in conditioning. Being able to discriminate between 2 simultaneous stimuli.
SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS
These are the conditions in the environment existing before and after an organism's response and influence. It is one of…
SIZE CONSTANCY
an awareness we have that an object doesn't change size as we move further away or closer to it. See…
SKILL LEARNING
the learning of a task to give accuracy, speed and performance after a high degree of practice. Skills may be…
SLEEP DEPRIVATION
the deliberate stopping of sleep often for experiments but also used to punish prisoners to get a confession. One day…
SLEEP STAGES
4 cycle progression of electrical activity that is recorded by an EEC. Stage 1 is marked by drowsiness; stage 2…
SLOW-RELEASE PREPARATION
a drug that is designed to release into your system over a period of time. It can be a patch…
SOCIAL ACTION
1. Group activities that are aimed at social benefits for the community. See social action group. 2. Sociology. Human activity…