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N., Sam M.S.

Sam holds a masters in Child Psychology and is an avid supporter of Psychology academics.
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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

SELECTION RATIO

Percentage of those qualified to be chosen for an objective that are actually chosen. In staff decisions, it is the

SEDUCTION

Process of deliberately enticing a person to engage in sexual intercourse without employing force. Generally, the action or procedure by

SELECTIVE AMNESIA

Loss of memory regarding certain issues, events, and individuals which is too wide-ranging to be accounted for by typical forgetfulness.

SELECTIVE CELL DEATH

Process in initial development wherein neurons which are not stimulated by sensory or motor experience wither and die.

SELECTIVE DROPOUT

Loss of particular, nonrandom subjects from research.

SELECTIVE ADAPTATION

Psycho-physical process wherein recurring subjection to a stimulus generates sensory variation that affects understanding of a successive stimulus. Assessment that

SELECTIVE LEARNING

Understanding how to make just one of various potential reactions or knowing about one stimulus when many stimuli are offered.

SELECTIVE PERCEPTION

Method wherein individuals select from the endless variety of stimuli provided to the sensory faculties at any one point in

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 ACTION

Measures by which a reinforcer could possibly have a larger impact on certain reactions as compared to others, specifically, its

SEDATIVE-, HYPNOTIC-, OR ANXIOLYTIC-INDUCED PERSISTING AMNESTIC DISORDER

Disruption in memory as a result of the prolonged impacts of sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic drugs. Capacity to be taught

SELECTIVE REMINDING TEST

Memory evaluation wherein the subject is provided the answer to the problem whenever it cannot be recalled to ensure that

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

SELECTIVE REARING

Experiential paradigm wherein an organism is brought up from arrival or from the time that the eyes open under circumstances

SELF-ABASEMENT

Degradation or humiliation of oneself, especially because of feelings of guilt or inferiority. Acute subjugation of oneself to the will

SELECTIVE POTENTIATION

Augmentation of sensitivity or processes of specific neural pathways.

SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY

Characteristic of a membrane which allows it to be permeable to some substances, and impermeable to others. See also: permeability.