SYMBOLIC PLAY
type of children games where the child's neural system plays pretend games: child pretends that he/she is someone else, and…
SYMPATHETIC INDUCTION
where a person's emotion evokes a similar response in another person.
SYMPTOMATOLOGY
1. The combination of signs, markers or indications of a disease or disorder. 2. The scientific study of the markers…
SYNTACTICS
the structural and grammatical aspects of language that is different to semantics.
SYSTEM OF MULTICULTURAL PLURALISTIC ASSESSMENT (SOMPA)
It is an assessment that is used to test the children who are between the age of 5 to 11,…
SEXUAL AROUSAL
a state of arousal caused by sexual contact or stimulation where impulses are sent through the central nervous system to…
SEXUAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
a sexual problem that does not fit into any one category for dysfunction or paraphilia. This disorder is a sexual…
SEXUAL LIBERATION
1. Being free from sexual constraints and inhibitions that are restrictive. 2. The processes and social trends toward an increase…
SHALLOW AFFECT
impairment in ability to react emotionally, even in times of intense feeling. See flat affect.
SHARED PARANOID DISORDER
A disorder with an illusion of being persecuted that has developed from living with a person who has these beliefs.…
SHOCK THERAPY
treating severe mental disorders by using drugs and an electric current to give a shock to the nervous system. Read…
SILENT MONITOR
This was a device used in 19th century factories to indicate a workers quality of conduct. It was an early…
SIMPLE IDEAS
Simple ideas are the associations and sensations from the various senses that form the basis of knowledge. These ideas can…
SINE QUA NON
a Latin phrase that means without which not. It is for an indispensable element.
SINISTRALITY
The tendency to use your left hand or the left side of the body in motor activities. See left-handedness. Compare…