SPECIFIC-STATUS CHARACTERISTICS
These are behavioural and personal characteristics that are relevant to a setting that are taken into account when making judgements.…
SPECULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
view that is based on speculation and not research and experiments. Also read armchair psychology; rational psychology.
SPEECH PERCEPTION
a psychological process where the listener processes the speech in to a phonological presentation.
SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY (SMA)
a hereditary motor neuron disease, characterized by wasting, atrophy, and of skeletal muscles associated with degeneration of nerve cells in…
SPONTANEITY TRAINING
Spontaneity training is a personality-training program where a client learns to act naturally and spontaneously in real-life situations by practicing…
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
the application and development of psychological theory for the understanding of human behaviour in the sport and physical exercise environment…
SPREADING ACTIVATION
1. Neuroscience. The hypothetical process where the activation of one neuron spreads to others. 2. Cognitive psychology. A model for…
STAGE FRIGHT
a reaction of anxiety when a person is expected to do public speaking or is to perform in public. You…
STANDARD DEVIATION
a measure of dispersion in scores, whether they are narrowly or broadly dispersed around the mean.
STANFORD ACHIEVEMENT TEST
multiple choice and open ended question used to measure progress in language, spelling, listening, mathematics, science and social science. There…
STATE SPACE
the representation graphically that is used to characterise game playing and problem solving. It has 4 components; a set of…
STATISTICAL ERROR
an error of sampling and measurement that will interfere with getting a valid conclusion.
STEADY STATE
used in behavioural studies and is the repeated behaviour that is the same. See behaviour baseline.
STEPPING REFLEX
a reflex movement seen in babies when we hold them upright with their feet touching a flat surface.
STEREOTYPE ACCURACY
being able to accurately determine how and to the extent a person's trait will correspond to a stereotype that is…
STEWART-MOREL SYNDROME
a disorder with hypertrophy of the frontal bone in the skull, headaches, obesity, mental retardation and nervous system affects. Also…