SONIC PATHFINDER
Trademark for a mobility assistance device a person wears on their head when they are vision impaired. A tone lets…
SOUND CHANGE
Linguistics. a change over time in the phonological language patterns. Modern languages are different from the original languages used many…
SOURCE MEMORY
Being able to remember the origin of a memory or of the knowledge of how we came to have that…
SPASTICITY
the increased state of tension of resting muscles that results in a resistance to stretch. It is caused by damage…
SPEARMAN'S G
A factor in Charles Spearman's Theory of intelligence represented by the factor G.
SPECIES-SPECIFIC DEFENSE REACTION (SSDR)
a defence reaction to adverse stimuli when another is absent. This bias determines the rate of learning an organism may…
SPECIFIC-STATUS CHARACTERISTICS
These are behavioural and personal characteristics that are relevant to a setting that are taken into account when making judgements.…
SPECULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
view that is based on speculation and not research and experiments. Also read armchair psychology; rational psychology.
SPEECH PERCEPTION
a psychological process where the listener processes the speech in to a phonological presentation.
SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY (SMA)
a hereditary motor neuron disease, characterized by wasting, atrophy, and of skeletal muscles associated with degeneration of nerve cells in…
SPONTANEITY TRAINING
Spontaneity training is a personality-training program where a client learns to act naturally and spontaneously in real-life situations by practicing…
SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
the application and development of psychological theory for the understanding of human behaviour in the sport and physical exercise environment…
SPREADING ACTIVATION
1. Neuroscience. The hypothetical process where the activation of one neuron spreads to others. 2. Cognitive psychology. A model for…
STAGE FRIGHT
a reaction of anxiety when a person is expected to do public speaking or is to perform in public. You…
STANDARD DEVIATION
a measure of dispersion in scores, whether they are narrowly or broadly dispersed around the mean.
STANFORD ACHIEVEMENT TEST
multiple choice and open ended question used to measure progress in language, spelling, listening, mathematics, science and social science. There…