SCIENTIFIC REASONING
Form of reasoning which includes the formation of hypotheses and the validation through scientific method of those hypotheses.
SCOTERYTHROUS VISION
Form of color blindness wherein reds seem to be darker due to a lack of perception at the red end…
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD)
A form of depression most often associated with the lack of daylight in extreme northern and southern latitudes from the…
SECONDARY CIRCULAR REACTION
Posited in Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, recurrent activity which emerges in infant behavior patterns at around 4-5 months…
SECONDARY PERSONALITY
In dissociative identity disorder, a distinct personality which takes repeated control of behavior. The distinct personality tends to be a…
SECOND-DEGREE RELATIVE
Individual who is related to you by another individual, without whom you would have no relation to the other. Examples…
SECURE TREATMENT SETTING
Residential care facility which has been locked to provide therapy services in a safe environment for both adolescent and adult…
SEGREGATION
Policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or…
SELECTIVE BREEDING
Process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits, or in order to produce a specific type of organism…
SELECTIVE SILENCE
In psychoanalysis, extended hush implemented by the counselor to produce anxiety which could motivate the patient to talk, consequently starting…
SADISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder which is marked by a pervasive pattern of cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behavior. Satisfaction is gained in intimidating,…
SALICYLATES
Class of medications based on salicin (obtained from the bark of the willow tree) or its compounds; employed as analgesics,…
SAMPLING VARIABILITY
Degree to which the importance of a statistic varies across a variety of samples from the median importance for any…
SCAFFOLDING
Epistemological method of embodied cognition , wherein the environment that an agent functions within is observed as a sine qua…
SCAPEGOAT THEORY
Social psychological term that relates to prejudice. According to this theory, people may be prejudice toward a group in order…
SCHEDULE FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA (SADS)
A semi-structured interview administered by a professional and designed to yield diagnostic information about current and lifetime incidences of affective…
SCHIZOID-MANIC STATE
Psychotic condition which has features of both manic and schizophrenic excitement. Also known as: schizomania.