SECOND SIGHT
The asserted, often-doubted faculty of seeing future events. See also: clairvoyance; precognition.
SECONDARY GAINS
In psychoanalysis, social, occupational, or interpersonal advantages that a patient derives from symptoms. Indirect benefit, usually obtained through an illness…
SECONDARY STUTTERING
Established stuttering behavior wherein the dysfluencies are accompanied by awareness, anticipation, and resultant anxiety. Tics in the face, hands, head,…
SECTIONING
Academic procedure of presenting the same class, generally taught by the same instructor, repeatedly throughout the day. This allows a…
SEDATIVE, HYPNOTIC, OR ANXIOLYTIC WITHDRAWAL
In DSM-IV-TR, typical withdrawal syndrome, possibly critical, that occurs after termination of (or decrease in) extended, excessive ingestion of sedative,…
SELECTION RESEARCH
Utilization of empirical analysis to ascertain the dependability, credibility, usability, and fairness of methods employed in staff choice as well…
SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
Method wherein individuals select from the endless variety of stimuli provided to the sensory faculties at any one point in…
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…
SCENARIO ANALYSIS
Important in fields as far ranging as politics and accident prevention, a practice wherein supervisors conceptualize an array of possible,…
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…