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…
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
The realisation of what you are capable of. Also called self-realisation. See humanistic psychology; Maslow's Motivational Hierarchy. By doing this,…
SELF-FOCUS
1. An ability a person has to direct conscious attention on themselves, thoughts, desires and emotions. 2. A person's ability…
SIMPLE EFFECTS
Seen in factorial design this is the comparison of group means of one factor at a set level of the…
SOCIAL BREAKDOWN SYNDROME
a pattern sees in people who have been institutionalised by mental illness or in prisons. They can withdraw, show apathy,…
SOCIAL LIMITATION
restriction attributed to social policy or barriers that will limit a person's fulfilment of roles or deny people access to…
SOCIAL ZONE
Actually, social zone is a zone of distance between 2 people like an attorney and his client. You can compare…
SPURIOUS CORRELATION
the situation where variables are correlated through their common relationship with one or more other variables but not through a…
STIMULUS SUBSTITUTION
Is when one stimulus takes the place of another stimulus and response is similar in both. In Pavlov
SUBLIMATION
In the psychoanalytic theory, it is a defence method which result from the unacceptable aggressive and sexual drivers but it…
SUPPORT GROUP
Group that contains individuals with similar problems, who meet on a regular basis to share problems and get support and…
TANGENTIALITY
it is a condition in which person experienced flight of ideas and unable to focus on main point. The inability…
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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,…