Category: S

Superego According to Freud, humans have three main components to their personality that cause us to behave the way we do and…

Successive Approximations Letʼs use the definition of ʻshapingʼ to explain successive approximations. Our definition of ʻshapingʼ is: ʻa behavioral term that refers…

Subliminal As humans, we have great abilities to perceive things (e.g., to see things happening far away, to hear sounds at a…

Structured Interview The Structured Interview is a data-gathering methodology that involves a standard set of questions asked in the same manner and…

Subjective Well-Being Subjective Well-Being or SWB refers to a person’s own assessment of their happiness and satisfaction with life. The World Values…

Sublimation Although many people criticize Freud and discount his ideas, he developed many landmark theories and concepts that persist today (I’m not…

Stressor Anything (physical or psychological) that produces stress (negative or positive) is considered a stressor. For example, getting a promotion is a…

Structuralism Structuralism was a school of thought that sought to identify the components (structure) of the mind (the mind was the key…

Stress A psychological and physical response of the body that occurs whenever we must adapt to changing conditions, whether those conditions be…

Stratified Random Sampling Stratified Random Sampling is a sampling method (a way of gathering participants for a study) used when the population…