SCREENING TEST
Assessment process intended to distinguish individuals or items in accordance with a set attribute or feature. Generally employed to differentiate…
SEASONALITY EFFECT
Idea that people with schizophrenia are quite likely to have been born in the course of the interval from January…
SECONDARY COPING
Refers to the process by which people adjust some aspect of the self and accept circumstances as they are. Also…
SECONDARY PREVENTION
Level of preventive medicine that focuses on early diagnosis, use of referral services, and rapid initiation of treatment to stop…
SECOND-ORDER FACTOR
An aspect that results from the factorization of oblique aspects by correlation to the resulting aspects independently. Compare with: first-order…
SECURITY OPERATIONS
As proposed by US psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), various interpersonal protective procedures, including arrogance, boredom, or irritability, which are…
SEISMIC COMMUNICATION
Employing ground or substrate in communication between individuals in certain animal species, usually achieved by thumping or stomping the ground.
SELEGILINE
Drug employed for the treatment of early-stage Parkinson's disease, depression and senile dementia. In normal clinical doses it is a…
SALICYLISM
Salicylate overdose, most commonly introduced by an attempt at poisoning or by ingesting too much aspirin. Symptoms may include stomach…
SAMPLING WITH REPLACEMENT
Sampling method wherein a chosen sample is put back into the data pool, where it may be subsequently redrawn for…
SATIETY MECHANISM
Processes or systems within the body which are responsible for the regulation of food or fluid consumption. See also: appetitive…
SCALA MEDIA
Also referred to as the cochlear duct, one of three canals present in the cochlea and traversing its length within…
SCAPEGOATING
Practice wherein an undeserving party is singled out for unmerited negative treatment, generally by someone or something more powerful than…
SCHEDULED AWAKENING
Type of behavioral therapy which seeks to reduce the instance of persistent nightmares (see: nightmare disorder; sleep terror disorder). Induces…
SCHIZOPHRENIA IN REMISSION
Diagnosis wherein it has been determined that at least one schizophrenic episode has occurred, but the individual is now symptom…
SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TEST (SAT)
Examination employed in choosing prospects for university admittance, previously known as Scholastic Aptitude Test. It assesses fundamental reading skills, mathematical…