SCREENING TESTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
Inventories or evaluation standards which have been designed to identify developmental delays, criterion behavior patterns, or various other associated risk…
SEAT OF MIND
The given location or organ within the body that functions as the physical location of the mind (in Cartesian dualism,…
SECONDARY DEFENSE SYMPTOMS
Group of protective procedures utilized by obsessive persons whenever their primary defenses against repressed recollections can no longer provide defense.…
SECONDARY PROCESS
In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the learned and acquired functions of the ego and characteristic of conscious…
SECOND-ORDER NEURON
Second neuron which carries signals from the spinal cord to the thalamus through the neural pathway.
SELECTIVE INATTENTION
Act of ignoring or otherwise screening out of stimuli that are threatening, anxiety-producing, or felt to be unimportant. Conscious or…
SELF AS AGENT
Facet of self which has ambitions, plans, and an extent of control regarding behavior and activities. Offers contrast with the…
SADOMASOCHISTIC PERSONALITY
In therapeutic terms, an individual who both enjoys being aggressive, and being the object of aggression.
SALIENCE HYPOTHESIS
The standard principle of perceptual experience dependent upon which particularly salient stimuli (items, individuals, meanings, and so forth) should be…
SAMPLE OVERLAP
Occurrence wherein values are observed in two or more samples within a population.
SCALA VESTIBULI
Perilymph-filled cavity within the cochlea which conducts sound vibrations to the scala media, and is separated from it by Reissner's…
SCATOLOGIA
Deviant sexual practice in which sexual pleasure is obtained through the compulsive use of obscene language. Commonly satisfied through obscene…
SCHEDULED DRUGS
Any substance subject to U.S. Controlled Substances Act (1970), which regulates prescribing and dispensing, as well as manufacturing, storage, sale,…
SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENT OUTCOMES RESEARCH TEAM (PORT)
Group of research workers set up in 1992 by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, along with the…
SCHOLASTICISM
Less a philosophy or even a theology than an approach of education, scholasticism put a clear emphasis on dialectical thinking…
SCIATIC NERVE
A substantial nerve begins in the lower portion of the spine and passes through the pelvis on its path to…