SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER
Mental disorder with the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia but of less than six months' duration, according to DSM-IV-TR. Impairment…
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY
Discipline that employs concepts of clinical psychology and academic psychology to the analysis and therapy for childrens' and adolescents' behavioral…
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
Reckoning of an event with regards to a recognized group of scientific concepts, details, and assumptions. Standard types of explanation…
SCREE PLOT
Plot, in descending order of magnitude, of the eigenvalues of a correlation matrix. In the context of factor analysis or…
SEARCH IMAGE
Apparatus to describe the perseverance of predators in searching for one or a handful of varieties of prey even with…
SECONDARY AGING
Variance because of biological maturation, but hastened as a result of disease and poor health practices (no exercise, smoking, excess…
SECONDARY GROUP
Groups in which one exchanges explicit commodities, such as labor for wages, services for payments, and such. Tend to be…
SECONDARY SYMPTOMS 1
As outlined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), those indications of schizophrenia, including delusions and hallucinations, which are common in…
SECTOR THERAPY
Treatment process wherein habits of correlation which have created psychological difficulties in the individual are supplanted by more reasonable and…
SEDATIVE, HYPNOTIC, OR ANXIOLYTIC WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM
Reversible affliction that evolves over a brief time period (typically several hours to few days) following termination of extended, excessive…
SELECTION TEST
Physiological or psychological evaluation that measures an individual's appropriateness for a job. These kinds of assessments are generally employed to…
SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY
Characteristic of a membrane which allows it to be permeable to some substances, and impermeable to others. See also: permeability.
SACCADIC SPEED
Rate of motion inherent in a saccade. Humans have been known to achieve rates of motion at up to 700
SAFETY ENGINEERING
Approach to engineering and structure design which seeks to reduce or eliminate hazards within work systems and processes. See also:…
SALPETRIERE
Institute for females established in Paris in 1656 as an psychiatric hospital for the infirm, elderly, and deranged individuals. In…
SAMPLING FRACTION
Percentage of a populace which is used in a sample : the ratio of a sample size in proportion to…
SATYRIASIS
Extreme and unquenchable desire to achieve sexual gratification in a male. Generally presenting as an inability to be satisfied by…