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Sensory Adaptation We get used to things. This goes for lots of things in life including smells, sounds, sights, games, people, situations…seems…

Sensorimotor Stage of Development According to the legendary developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget, from birth to approximately age 2 learn to coordinate all…

Sensitive Period The term, Sensitive Period is a developmental term and refers to a time when a child is particularly receptive to…

Sensation Technically, the sensation can be defined as the neural synaptic firing of our receptors and our brain’s interpretation of these firings.…

Semantics Semantics concerns the meanings of words, signs, symbols, and the phrases that represent them. More specifically, it is the study of…

Semantic Memory Semantic memory is one of the three types of long-term memory (the others are episodic and procedural) in which we…

Semantic Encoding As you know, encoding is the process of getting information into memory for storage. Semantic encoding is a specific type…

Self-Serving Bias Self-serving bias refers to people’s tendency to attribute positive outcomes to personal factors, but attribute negative outcomes to external factors.…

Self-Schema A self-schema is a belief or idea about oneself that leads to a bias that is self-perpetuating. It could consist of…

Self-Esteem The extent to which and ways in which people view themselves. People who view themselves favorably have good self-esteems whereas people…