Super-ego

Sulci

Suggestibility

Subjective norm

Subject

Structured interview

Striate cortex

Strepsirhines

Strange situation

Stimulus segmentation

Stereotyping

Statistical reasoning

State-action tree

State

Stanford-Binet test

a revision of the Binet-Simon intelligence test, which provides a scale of ninety items that can be used to test all people, from individuals with learning difficulties to superior adults; the test also provides examples of acceptable and unacceptable answers to test items so that scoring can be carried out with precision.

the different levels of arousal experienced by infants, such as sleeping, waking and crying.

in problem solving, the complete set of choices available to a problem solver, set out in a diagrammatic form, showing the possible states of the world, represented together with the actions that lead from one state to another.

a form of reasoning applied to arguments that depend on statistics or probability, and which is often important in deciding how to conduct our everyday lives.

the imposition, as a result of irrational prejudices, of a set of simplified characteristics upon a racial, social or other person or group, despite evidence to the contrary.

the organization of a stimulus into parts that belong together and parts that don't and which is also known as grouping or parsing.

the procedure used with infants aged 1 to 3 years to measure the relationship between an infant and a particular care giver, which assesses the infant's response to being mildly stressed by being taken from them and left with a stranger.

one of the two great branches of the primate order, comprised of lemurs and lorises.

see primary visual cortex.

a set of face-to-face questions posed to a subject in social research.

the participant in any kind of observational research study.

in the theory of reasoned action, a person's perceptions of social approval for their performing a particular behaviour and which will serve as a predictor of the action taken.

in the study of crowd behaviour, the responsiveness of individuals within a crowd to taking part in often violent group activity, as if in a hypnotic trance.

the clefts in the cerebrum.

in Freudian psychology, one of the fundamental components of the personality; the super-ego develops in the child from the age of 3-5 years, emerging out of the ego as the seat of the conscience and controlling instinctive desires as a result of the learning of standards of social behaviour from the parent.

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