SELECTION BIAS
Statistical bias in which there is an error in choosing the individuals or groups to take part in a scientific…
SELECTED GROUP
Sample selection based on particular criteria relevant to the aim of the research.
SELECTIVE BREEDING
Process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits, or in order to produce a specific type of organism…
SELECTIVE AMNESIA
Loss of memory regarding certain issues, events, and individuals which is too wide-ranging to be accounted for by typical forgetfulness.…
SEISMIC COMMUNICATION
Employing ground or substrate in communication between individuals in certain animal species, usually achieved by thumping or stomping the ground.
SELECTIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING
Making sense of attitude-relevant details in a prejudiced fashion. Though numerous possible biases are feasible, it has customarily been presumed…
SELECTIVE MUTISM
In DSM-IV-TR, an uncommon condition, generally, although not specifically, present in small children, distinguished by a chronic failure to talk…
SELECTIVE OPTIMIZATION WITH COMPENSATION
Method employed in productive aging to adjust to physical and intellectual deficits related to growing older. Entails accentuating and reinforcing…
SELECTIVE POTENTIATION
Augmentation of sensitivity or processes of specific neural pathways.
SELECTIVE RETENTION
Variance between people in the ability to recall specific incidents pertaining to the vividness, accuracy and reliability, amount, and particular…
SELECTIVE REMINDING TEST
Memory evaluation wherein the subject is provided the answer to the problem whenever it cannot be recalled to ensure that…
SELECTIVE CELL DEATH
Process in initial development wherein neurons which are not stimulated by sensory or motor experience wither and die.
SEGREGATION ANALYSIS
Enumeration of progeny according to distinct and mutually exclusive phenotypes; used as a test of a putative pattern of inheritance…
SELF AS AGENT
Facet of self which has ambitions, plans, and an extent of control regarding behavior and activities. Offers contrast with the…
SELF-ABASEMENT
Degradation or humiliation of oneself, especially because of feelings of guilt or inferiority. Acute subjugation of oneself to the will…
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Any specific method of psychology preoccupied with the self. School of psychoanalytical philosophy which emphasizes the significance of an individual's…
SELEGILINE
Drug employed for the treatment of early-stage Parkinson's disease, depression and senile dementia. In normal clinical doses it is a…
SELECTIVE VALUE
Comparative significance of any aspect in assessing the evolution of internal organs, characteristics, or species by means of natural selection.…
SELECTIVE SILENCE
In psychoanalysis, extended hush implemented by the counselor to produce anxiety which could motivate the patient to talk, consequently starting…