SOCIAL DISTANCE SCALE
a measure of how close a person is willing to be to another person of different race, colour or social…
SOCIAL MOVEMENT
the deliberate and organised effort of people and groups to seek change or to resist change. This emerges and operates…
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Social psychology is the study of how a person's thoughts, feelings and actions are affected by the presence of other…
SOCIAL ROLE VALORIZATION
Social role valorisation is a principle that is developed in succession to the normalisation principle that stresses the importance of…
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
These are the complex combination of processes, forms and systems that help to organise and regulate a group. It is…
SOCIAL-INQUIRY MODEL
model for teaching emphasising the role of social interaction. It resolves social issues by legal reasoning and academic inquiry.
SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH
an approach to designing and evaluating work systems. It is based on a theory that roles and tasks, technology and…
SOMATIC FUNCTION
a function of sensation and contraction of muscles involving the somatic nervous system.
SOMATOTOPIC ORGANIZATION
the distribution of areas of motor cortex that relate to the activities of skeletal muscles. Also read somatosensory area; motor…
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…