SUCCESSIVE CONTRAST
improved idea of contrast between two stimulations which are presented closely one after the other. See also color contrast. Compare…
SUFFIX EFFECT
the effect where the memory of the last item is weakened if another item is add at the end of…
SULCUS PRINCIPALIS
In monkeys, this is part of the brain which is connection between the dorsolateral and ventrolateral frontal cortex. It is…
SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE (SQUID)
apparatus used in MMR to observe brain waves. It is used in the room isolated from all other magnetic sources.…
SUPERIORITY COMPLEX
The feeling of being superior. It is reverse of inferiority complex. In this complex, a person feels himself as superior…
SUPERVISORY CONTROL
Type of the control that person in charge of certain machine or entire mechanical system has over it. The person…
SUPPRESSIVE THERAPY
Type of therapy that is supposed to enforce patients individual protective mechanisms that act as a way of suppression, stronger.
SUSCEPTIBILITY RHYTHMS
These are the cyclical variations in sensitivity to an infection or allergic response.
SYMBOLIC PLAY
type of children games where the child's neural system plays pretend games: child pretends that he/she is someone else, and…
SYMPATHETIC INDUCTION
where a person's emotion evokes a similar response in another person.
SYMPTOMATOLOGY
1. The combination of signs, markers or indications of a disease or disorder. 2. The scientific study of the markers…
SYNTACTICS
the structural and grammatical aspects of language that is different to semantics.
SYSTEM OF MULTICULTURAL PLURALISTIC ASSESSMENT (SOMPA)
It is an assessment that is used to test the children who are between the age of 5 to 11,…
SEXUAL AROUSAL
a state of arousal caused by sexual contact or stimulation where impulses are sent through the central nervous system to…
SEXUAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
a sexual problem that does not fit into any one category for dysfunction or paraphilia. This disorder is a sexual…