SECONDARY ENVIRONMENT
Surrounding which is supplementary or slightly significant in a person's existence and in which interpersonal interactions are relatively short and…
SECONDARY GAINS
In psychoanalysis, social, occupational, or interpersonal advantages that a patient derives from symptoms. Indirect benefit, usually obtained through an illness…
SECONDARY GROUP
Groups in which one exchanges explicit commodities, such as labor for wages, services for payments, and such. Tend to be…
SECONDARY MENTAL DEFICIENCY
Mental deficiency or injury resulting in below-average intelligence, and which is not due to congenital factors.
SECONDARY MOOD DISORDER
Mood dysfunction which takes place within the framework of a primary dysfunction, and whose symptoms might be engendered by the…
SECONDARY PERSONALITY
In dissociative identity disorder, a distinct personality which takes repeated control of behavior. The distinct personality tends to be a…
SECONDARY REWARD
Positive reinforcement associated with fulfillment of a biological need. Signals which correlate with a primary reward.
SECONDARY SENSORY AREA
Any of the parts in the cerebral cortex that access express projections from the primary sensory region for a presented…
SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY AREA (S2)
Refers to a portion of the parietal lobe within the cerebral cortex that is defined on the basis of multiple…
SECONDARY STUTTERING
Established stuttering behavior wherein the dysfluencies are accompanied by awareness, anticipation, and resultant anxiety. Tics in the face, hands, head,…
SECONDARY TASK METHODOLOGY
Controlled model employed in the analysis of concentration wherein individuals execute a primary job as well as possible and a…
SECONDARY TASTE CORTEX
Located in the orbitofrontal area of the cerebral cortex, it is the second cortical relay for taste (see also: primary…
SECONDARY VISUAL SYSTEM
Phylogenetically older, visual path that is situated outside the primary visual system. Eyesight established with this system is comparatively weak…
SECOND-DEGREE RELATIVE
Individual who is related to you by another individual, without whom you would have no relation to the other. Examples…
SECTIONING
Academic procedure of presenting the same class, generally taught by the same instructor, repeatedly throughout the day. This allows a…
SECULAR HUMANISM
Philosophy that espouses reason, ethics, and the search for human fulfillment, and specifically rejects supernatural and religious dogma as the…
SECURE BASE PHENOMENON
Assessment that young children make use of an area of security, symbolized by an attachment figure, as a foundation from…