SYNAPTOGENESIS
The formation of synapses between neurons as the axons and dendrites grow. Read also the experience-dependent process; experience-expectantPROCESS.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
A discipline adopts a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to design and to analyse the system so that they can account…
SEXUAL ADDICTION
sexual behaviour that follows the form of a drug addiction where sex becomes out of control is looked for at…
SEXUAL CONTACT
any form of person to person contact, kissing, touching, caressing, biting, and sex and fondling.
SEXUAL IDENTITY
1. A person's internal identification with hetero, homo or bisexuality. 2. A synonym for sex identity or gender identity.
SEXUAL PERVERSION
a term given to any sexual practice that is regarded by a community as abnormal. It applies to any practice…
SHAMELESSNESS
This behaviour without any feelings of shame that has arisen from neither a brain injury nor a psychological problem.
SHIFT WORK
work that starts and ends at different times of the day. There is 3 shifts, day, afternoon and night. People…
SIMPLE CAUSATION
when a single event is caused by a single factor. Compare multiple causation.
SIMULATION TRAINING
A job training technique that is not on the job but away from the job to teach a complex or…
SINGLE-EPISODE DEPRESSION
Single episode depression is an episode where a person not with a history of depressive episodes has one. Treatment is…
SITUATION AWARENESS
the conscious knowledge we have of the immediate environment and all of the events happening in it. The elements are…
SITUATIONALISM
That behaviour is based on interaction with the external environment and not internal factors.