Short range motion system

Shared reference

Shared definition of the situation

Sexual dimorphism

Sex-role stereotypes

Separation anxiety test

Sensory store

Sensorimotor stage

Sensorimotor communication

Sense

Semistructured interview

Semantic memory

Self-socialization

Self-serving bias

in the study of the attribution process, the tendency to attribute one's success to internal factors and one's failure to external factors, thus avoiding blame for negative events and accepting credit for positive events, which in turn increase our self-esteem.

the process whereby a child develops a sense of gender identity in the course of sex-role identification, and which is not directly dependent on external reinforcement.

a proposed memory system which contains general knowledge, language, rules and concepts.

a technique developed by James Marcia which put the ideas of Erik Erikson on adolescent development into a testable form.

senile dementia see Alzheimer's disease.

also known as intension this is a linguistic definition of meaning, where an expression can be defined by purely linguistic things.

the baby's early signalling system, which emphasizes the fact that communication in the first year and a half is rooted to vocalizations and gestural actions centred around feeding, dressing, bathing and play.

the developmental period in the infant from birth until 18 months of age, as defined by the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget.

the memory store which holds incoming sensory information for a brief period of time. The two most widely investigated are iconic memory (vision) and echoic memory (hearing).

a photographic test devised to measure attachment quality in older children and adolescents and differentiate between those who place value on intimate relationships with others, and those who act in ways likely to elicit rejection.

the belief originally found amongst children, including those not yet attending school, about what are most appropriate characteristics for each sex.

a characteristic of species, such as humans, where there are two distinguishable forms of male and female, in which males compete over females and are larger than the female or endowed with more dangerous weaponry.

in the dyad an understanding arrived at by the two individuals involved as to what the nature of their encounter is.

the ability of a baby, by the end of its first year, to look at something another person is pointing at.

one of two systems thought to underpin human motion perception, which operates by directly measuring retinal motion. See also long range motion system.

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