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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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SEGMENTATION

Process of behavior adjustment wherein a complicated progression of behavior patterns is broken into components to make sure the patient

SEGREGATION

Policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or

SEGREGATION ANALYSIS

Enumeration of progeny according to distinct and mutually exclusive phenotypes; used as a test of a putative pattern of inheritance

SELECTED GROUP

Sample selection based on particular criteria relevant to the aim of the research.

SELECTION

Play of forces that determines the relative reproductive performance of the various genotypes in a population, especially in regard to

SELECTION PRESSURE

Way of measuring the degree with which natural selection prefers the existence of certain genotypes over certain others, which therefore

SELECTION RATIO

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

SELECTIVE BREEDING

Process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits, or in order to produce a specific type of organism

SELECTIVE CELL DEATH

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

SELECTIVE INATTENTION

Act of ignoring or otherwise screening out of stimuli that are threatening, anxiety-producing, or felt to be unimportant. Conscious or

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 PERMEABILITY

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

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 SILENCE

In psychoanalysis, extended hush implemented by the counselor to produce anxiety which could motivate the patient to talk, consequently starting

SELEGILINE

Drug employed for the treatment of early-stage Parkinson's disease, depression and senile dementia. In normal clinical doses it is a

SELF AS AGENT

Facet of self which has ambitions, plans, and an extent of control regarding behavior and activities. Offers contrast with the

SELF PSYCHOLOGY

Any specific method of psychology preoccupied with the self. School of psychoanalytical philosophy which emphasizes the significance of an individual's