| 3301. | Schema | schema A mental model or framework within which new experiences are digested. Extensively used by PIAGET in his descriptions of the way in which children make sense of the world at More… 0.2 KB |
| 3302. | Schispoid | Is often used to describe schizophrenia-like symptoms, yet without a diagnosis of schizophrenia being made. More accurately, it is a shortened from of the schizoid personality disorder, More… 0.4 KB |
| 3303. | Schizophrenia | A general name for a group of psychotic reactions characterized by withdrawal, disturbances in emotional and effective life, and depending upon the type, the presence of hallucinations, More… 3.1 KB |
| 3304. | Schizophrenia in remission | A diagnosis label referring to the fact that a client has had periods of schizophrenia, but at the time the diagnosis was made, was free of schizophrenic symptoms, There is considerable More… 0.5 KB |
| 3305. | Schizophrenogenic family | A term given to a family that has poor communication patterns and high levels of conflict among its members. The idea of a schizophrenogenic family has been implicated with the development More… 0.5 KB |
| 3306. | Schizotypal personality disorder | Schizotypal personality disorder, or simply schizotypal disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, odd behavior and thinking, and often More… 1.5 KB |
| 3307. | Scholasticism | Scholasticism is derived from the Latin word scholasticus (Greek: σχολαστικός), which means "that [which] belongs to the school", and was a method of learning taught by the More… 1.2 KB |
| 3308. | School counselor | A school counselor is a counselor and educator who works in K-12 schools to provide academic, career, college readiness, and personal/social competencies to all students and other More… 1.6 KB |
| 3309. | School psychology | Is an applied psychology specialty that blends the knowledge bases of education and psychology into a professional practice that delivers services to clients of various ages, primarily More… 2.0 KB |
| 3310. | Scientific method | the techniques employed by scientists in the pursuit of knowledge. The scientist may utilize either naturalistic observation or experimentation. Naturalistic observation is the objective More… 0.5 KB |
| 3311. | Scotoma | scotoma A blind area of the RETINA, usually in addition to the normal BLIND SPOT found in every eye . |
| 3312. | Screen memory | (in psychoanalysis); fragmentary childhood memories that have been able to overcome the repressive forces of the ego but which, like dreams, are condensed, symbolic, and reveal displacement More… 0.2 KB |
| 3313. | Seashore test | Seashore test A series of recorded tests of musical abilities developed by the American psychologist Carl Seashore. |
| 3314. | Seashore tests of musical talent | a series of recorded tests of pitch discrimination, tonal memory, loudness, discrimination, rhythm, time, and timbre, useful in identifying the relative standing of an individual on the More… 0.2 KB |
| 3315. | Secondary intersubjectivity | Simon Baron-Cohen makes it clear that ID and EDD separately or together are sufficient to enable the child to regognize dyadic ralations between the other and the self, or between the More… 1.3 KB |
| 3316. | Selective attention | selective attention The deliberate focusing of ATTENTION on something to the exclusion of competing stimuli. |
| 3317. | Selective perception | Selective perception may refer to any number of cognitive biases in psychology related to the way expectations affect perception. For instance, several studies have shown that students More… 1.1 KB |
| 3318. | Self esteem | Self-esteem reflects a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs (for example, "I am competent/incompetent") and More… 1.1 KB |
| 3319. | Self fulfilling prophecy | A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself. Although examples of such prophecies can be More… 1.2 KB |
| 3320. | Self-actualisation | self-actualisation According to the American psychologist ABRAHAM MASLOW, the ongoing striving to fulfil one's capacities that is a sign of psychological health. |
| 3321. | Self-actualization | A term that has two meanings. Firstly, it may be used in a motivational sense, i.e. the motive to realize one's full potential, Secondly, in the personality theory of Abraham Maslow, it More… 0.6 KB |
| 3322. | Self-concept | literally, the way we view ourselves. We may experience a sense of individuality (being different from others) as well as of interdependence (belonging and association with others). More… 0.6 KB |
| 3323. | Self-disclosure | The tendecy to disclose increasingly intimate information about ourselves as we get to know someone better. At the beginning of a relationship, self-disclosure tends to be about superficial More… 0.7 KB |
| 3324. | Self-fulfilling prophecy | self-fulfilling prophecy The idea that expectations concerning one's own or other people's BEHAVIOUR can lead to the expected behaviour appearing , such as in the ROSENTHAL More… 0.2 KB |
| 3325. | Self-image | self-image The SELF a person believes himself to be. One's selfimage is a composite of many things and may bear little relation to any OBJECTIVE assessment of oneself or the More… 0.8 KB |