SOCIAL DEPRIVATION
1. The lack of opportunity for social experiences. 2. A limited access to a society's resources. See cultural deprivation.
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
a view that learning is mainly due to our social interactions with others. Behaviour is assumed to be developed and…
SOCIAL SELF
1. The aspects of the self that are important to social relations. 2. A person's characteristic behaviour in social situations.…
SPECIFIC PHOBIA
an anxiety disorder that used to be called a simple phobia that was marked by a persistent fear of an…
STATUS DIFFERENTIATION
Status differentiation is the gradual rise to positions of greater authority by some people within a group, accompanied by decreases…
STRESS-INOCULATION TRAINING (SIT)
Consists of 4 stages which make a person learn stress management techniques. The first stage is the identification of stress.…
SYMBOLIC PROCESS
process of thinking where certain ideas, pictures or other mental statement acts as intermediary of thought. This term is commonly…
SELF-AWARENESS
1. see self-understanding. 2. seen in animal behaviour. To know about one's self. Human beings are more likely to be…
SELF-HANDICAPPING
Psychological technique where a person lessens a chance of a good performance because they expect to fail. It is done…
SELF-SERVING BIAS
how we interpret an event in a way that gives us credit for success and denies any responsibility for failure.…
SEXUAL TRAUMA
It is a disturbing experiences relating to sex, such as rape and other sex offences. It is just like a…
SLEEPER EFFECT
the impact of a persuasive message that increases over time. It involves close scrutiny of the message and a cue…
SOCIAL DESIRABILITY
1. The extent that a person is considered to be a valuable member of a social group. 2. The bias…
SOCIAL LIMITATION
restriction attributed to social policy or barriers that will limit a person's fulfilment of roles or deny people access to…
SPECIFICITY
1. the quality of being unique from everything else. 2. A probability that a person will test negative for a…
STEREOTYPE
a set of generalisations about a group of people or a social category. It may correct or incorrect. Mostly, these…
STROBOSCOPIC ILLUSION
Is a perceptual illusion which is experienced while seeing the still images. This illusion makes a person feel like still…