SELECTION PRESSURE
Way of measuring the degree with which natural selection prefers the existence of certain genotypes over certain others, which therefore…
SEGREGATION ANALYSIS
Enumeration of progeny according to distinct and mutually exclusive phenotypes; used as a test of a putative pattern of inheritance…
SELECTION TEST
Physiological or psychological evaluation that measures an individual's appropriateness for a job. These kinds of assessments are generally employed to…
SELECTIVE AMNESIA
Loss of memory regarding certain issues, events, and individuals which is too wide-ranging to be accounted for by typical forgetfulness.…
SELECTIVE ADAPTATION
Psycho-physical process wherein recurring subjection to a stimulus generates sensory variation that affects understanding of a successive stimulus. Assessment that…
SEGREGATION
Policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or…
SECURE TREATMENT SETTING
Residential care facility which has been locked to provide therapy services in a safe environment for both adolescent and adult…
SELECTIVE LEARNING
Understanding how to make just one of various potential reactions or knowing about one stimulus when many stimuli are offered.…
SELECTIVE CELL DEATH
Process in initial development wherein neurons which are not stimulated by sensory or motor experience wither and die.
SELECTIVE RESPONSE
Reaction which has been singled out from a group of potential surrogate reactions.
SELECTIVE REARING
Experiential paradigm wherein an organism is brought up from arrival or from the time that the eyes open under circumstances…
SELECTIVE BREEDING
Process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits, or in order to produce a specific type of organism…
SELEGILINE
Drug employed for the treatment of early-stage Parkinson's disease, depression and senile dementia. In normal clinical doses it is a…
SELF AS OBSERVER
Facet of self which clarifies sensory and linguistic input for executive control, specifically, the self as knower (see: nominative self).
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Any specific method of psychology preoccupied with the self. School of psychoanalytical philosophy which emphasizes the significance of an individual's…
SELECTIVE SILENCE
In psychoanalysis, extended hush implemented by the counselor to produce anxiety which could motivate the patient to talk, consequently starting…
SELECTIVE RETENTION
Variance between people in the ability to recall specific incidents pertaining to the vividness, accuracy and reliability, amount, and particular…
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
Process whereby one pays attention only to messages that address a need or interest or are consistent with the individual's…