SELECTED GROUP
Sample selection based on particular criteria relevant to the aim of the research.
SEDATIVE, HYPNOTIC, OR ANXIOLYTIC INTOXICATION
Reversible disorder particular to the recent intake of sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic drugs. It may include clinically important behavioral or…
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 AGENT
Aspect of the surroundings which applies selection pressures, leading to natural selection.
SELECTION RESEARCH
Utilization of empirical analysis to ascertain the dependability, credibility, usability, and fairness of methods employed in staff choice as well…
SELECTIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING
Making sense of attitude-relevant details in a prejudiced fashion. Though numerous possible biases are feasible, it has customarily been presumed…
SELECTION RATIO
Percentage of those qualified to be chosen for an objective that are actually chosen. In staff decisions, it is the…
SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY
Characteristic of a membrane which allows it to be permeable to some substances, and impermeable to others. See also: permeability.
SELECTIVE REMINDING TEST
Memory evaluation wherein the subject is provided the answer to the problem whenever it cannot be recalled to ensure that…
SELECTIVE RESPONSE
Reaction which has been singled out from a group of potential surrogate reactions.
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 VALUE
Comparative significance of any aspect in assessing the evolution of internal organs, characteristics, or species by means of natural selection.…
SELF AS OBSERVER
Facet of self which clarifies sensory and linguistic input for executive control, specifically, the self as knower (see: nominative self).
SELF AS AGENT
Facet of self which has ambitions, plans, and an extent of control regarding behavior and activities. Offers contrast with the…
SELECTIVE MUTISM
In DSM-IV-TR, an uncommon condition, generally, although not specifically, present in small children, distinguished by a chronic failure to talk…
SELECTION PRESSURE
Way of measuring the degree with which natural selection prefers the existence of certain genotypes over certain others, which therefore…
SCRIPT THEORY 1
Psychological theory which posits that human behavior largely falls into patterns called "scripts" because they function analogously to the way…