Used in two senses; acting the part of another person in a therapeutic or experimental situation, or playing a ROLE for deliberate effect

An attempt to measure the degree of social intimacy a person will accept in relation to other groups or individuals.

How well a person likes herself; how worthy she deems herself to be.

A mental model or framework within which new experiences are digested. Extensively used by PIAGET in his descriptions of the way in which children make sense of the world at different STAGES of development

A stimulus that produces an UNCONDITIONED RESPONSE at the beginning of the CONDITIONING procedure. For example, food producing salivation.

The tendency of people to work less hard on a task when part of a GROUP than as individuals, due to a DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY.

See ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY

A CULTURE which relies on shaming and ridiculing by others to regulate the BEHAVIOUR of a given individual and thus maintain order and social control. Such a culture is vulnerable to people not getting caught when breaking rules, if there is no internalised mechanism of self-regulation. Contrasted with GUILT CULTURE.

A technique used in OPERANT CONDITIONING which rewards any BEHAVIOUR that comes close to what is required, then gradually shapes the behaviour more exactly by reducing the area of rewarded behaviour.

A situation where people are deprived of the usual stimulation of their senses encountered in daily life. Apparently when people are isolated from sensory stimulation as far as possible in a laboratory they quickly become bored and then start to HALLUCINATE. It may be that when people have nothing in their environment for their BRAINS to work on and make sense of they feel a need to provide their own SENSATIONS and make sense out of nothing.