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 OPTIMIZATION WITH COMPENSATION
Method employed in productive aging to adjust to physical and intellectual deficits related to growing older. Entails accentuating and reinforcing…
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
Method wherein individuals select from the endless variety of stimuli provided to the sensory faculties at any one point in…
SELECTIVE SILENCE
In psychoanalysis, extended hush implemented by the counselor to produce anxiety which could motivate the patient to talk, consequently starting…
SELECTIVE RESPONSE
Reaction which has been singled out from a group of potential surrogate reactions.
SELF AS KNOWN
Facet of self which is identified through contemplation (see: empirical self). Occasionally distinguished regarding self as knower (see: nominative self).
SELF-ABASEMENT
Degradation or humiliation of oneself, especially because of feelings of guilt or inferiority. Acute subjugation of oneself to the will…
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 CELL DEATH
Process in initial development wherein neurons which are not stimulated by sensory or motor experience wither and die.
SCORE EQUATING
Method of equalizing test results so their apportionment retains equivalency over repeated applications and through various versions.