SUPERORDINATE GOAL
1. It is a goal that is of higher importance then some other, less important one; 2. It is a…
SYSTEMATIZED DELUSION
a false belief that is very organised. Compare fragmentary delusion. The delusions which are highly developed and these are organized…
SELF-ACTIVITY
The decision to carry out actions you have thought about yourself and not been told to do. Such activity is…
SELF-ESTEEM
the degree to which the qualities contained in our self-concept are seen to be positive. It reflects a person's image…
SELF-STATEMENT MODIFICATION
a technique to change bad ideas about ourselves that have been uncovered in cognitive behaviour therapy. See self-instructional training.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER
1. Your spouse or other person you have a committed relationship with. 2. A person with a profound influence on…
SOCIAL APPROVAL
the positive appraisal and acceptance of a person by a social group. It can include compliments, praise, etc. Compare it…
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
a view that learning is mainly due to our social interactions with others. Behaviour is assumed to be developed and…
SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL
the retreat from society and interpersonal relationships that can be accompanied by in difference and aloofment. It can be associated…
SPREADING ACTIVATION
1. Neuroscience. The hypothetical process where the activation of one neuron spreads to others. 2. Cognitive psychology. A model for…
STIMULUS ERROR
an error in a response due to focusing on the meaning or semantic status of a stimulus instead of its…
SUBJECTIVITY
It is the ability of interpreting the data or to make judgment by using the experience, beliefs and feeling. It…
SUPERSTITIOUS BEHAVIOR
Type of the reaction to certain situations/impulses that gets so embedded in individual's course of action that he repeats it…
TABOO (TABU)
A social, spiritual, moral or ethical restriction that makes a man to restraint from a particular behaviour, person or an…
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POSTPOSITIVISM
noun. 1. the general stance of American psychology since the mid-twentieth century, whenever it stopped being dominated by logical positivism,…
POVERTY OF CONTENT OF SPEECH
speech which is sufficient in amount but too general, recurrent, and absent of content to be qualitatively sufficient. It is…
POVERTY OF IDEAS
a thought disruption, frequently correlated with dementia, extreme depression, and schizophrenia, wherein there is lessened spontaneity and progression of thought…
POWERLESSNESS
a state of mind wherein people feel they have no control over or effect on aspects or occurrences which impact…
POPULATION
noun. 1. the entire amount of people in a rendered geographical location. 2. with regard to statistics, a theoretically defined,…