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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 …