SELECTION PRESSURE
Way of measuring the degree with which natural selection prefers the existence of certain genotypes over certain others, which therefore…
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 PSYCHOLOGY
Any specific method of psychology preoccupied with the self. School of psychoanalytical philosophy which emphasizes the significance of an individual's…
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.…
SECONDARY VISUAL SYSTEM
Phylogenetically older, visual path that is situated outside the primary visual system. Eyesight established with this system is comparatively weak…