QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
An experiment in which participants are assigned to either control groups or experimental groups in a non-random manner.
RECONSTRUCTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
Mental therapy aimed at fundamental and comprehensive adjustment of a subject's personality by improving the subject's comprehension of personality growth,…
RELIABILITY OF COMPOSITES
Reliability of the various components of a test or measurement device. See also: composite reliability.
RESPONSE SET
Inclination to provide answers to queries in a methodical way, regardless of the content of the question. See also: response…
RISK AVERSION
Propensity to evade any option which might impose any loss contingency, even a very small one, when determining which of…
SALIENCE HYPOTHESIS
The standard principle of perceptual experience dependent upon which particularly salient stimuli (items, individuals, meanings, and so forth) should be…
SELECTIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING
Making sense of attitude-relevant details in a prejudiced fashion. Though numerous possible biases are feasible, it has customarily been presumed…
SELF-DECEPTION
1. A failure to see your own limitations. 2. Developing a false or an unrealistic concept of you. To deceive…
SELF-PERCEPTION
a person's view of themselves and of any mental or physical attribute that makes up the self. Also called a…
SENSE OF SELF
our feeling of identity, uniqueness and self-direction. Read about the self-concept; self-image; sense of identity.
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 FACTORS
These are the factors that affect our thought and behaviour in social situations. This includes feedback, splitting into smaller groups…
SOCIAL PENETRATION THEORY
a model that shows a close relationship will get closer as both people disclose more and more intimate things about…
SOCIAL-DECISION SCHEME
a rule or strategy used in a group to select an alternative from choices put forward during discussions. These schemes…
STAGES OF CHANGE
The 5 steps to bring a change in health behaviour: precontemplation; contemplation; preparation; action; maintenance. Referred as transtheoratical model. It…
STIMULUS EQUIVALENCE
Is the situation when there are two stimuli which both elicit the same response. Stimuli meet the mathematical definition of…
SUBJECTIVE
Not able to be accessed or observed. Opposite to objective. Something that is effected by personal feelings, prejudice and interpretations.…