SCHEDULED AWAKENING
Type of behavioral therapy which seeks to reduce the instance of persistent nightmares (see: nightmare disorder; sleep terror disorder). Induces…
SCHIZOPHRENIA IN REMISSION
Diagnosis wherein it has been determined that at least one schizophrenic episode has occurred, but the individual is now symptom…
SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TEST (SAT)
Examination employed in choosing prospects for university admittance, previously known as Scholastic Aptitude Test. It assesses fundamental reading skills, mathematical…
SCHWANNOMA
Tumor, usually solitary and encapsulated, of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve, typically benign but with a tendency to…
SCIENTOLOGY
Doctrines and beliefs of a religious movement, founded in the mid-20th century, by L. Ron Hubbard, especially an emphasis upon…
SCOTOMIZATION
Theory in psychoanalysis which refers to the mind's ability to erase a traumatic or overwhelming experience, or the inclination to…
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.