SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
mental ability to imagine the objects in space and move them to different apparent locations. It is one of Gardner's…
SPECIAL PSYCHIATRIC RAPID INTERVENTION TEAM (SPRINT)
a multidisciplinary team providing assistance in short term mental health and emotional support after a crisis. This term is also…
SPECIFIC THALAMIC PROJECTION SYSTEM
a direct sensory pathway from the thalamus for auditory, visual and some somasthetic impulses.
SPECTRAL COLOR
any of the colours that are in the visible spectrum that is made when light is refracted by a prism.…
SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING CENTER
Speech, language and hearing center is specialty clinic staffed with people who are qualified to diagnose and treat any impairments…
SPINA BIFIDA
a developmental defect where the vertebral canal does not close properly around the spinal cord. This neural defect consequently in…
SPORT SOCIALIZATION
used to teach skills necessary to function well in a society by playing sport to better understand respect for authority…
STABILIZING SELECTION
the tendency of natural selection to maintain the existing average population number over subsequent generations.
STAIRCASE PHENOMENON
1. Anything that shows a graduated step like change. 2. Cardiac muscle. The increase in the force when a heart…
STANDARD SCORE
the score that is obtained from an original score by subtracting the mean value of all scores in the batch…
STATES VERSUS TRANSFORMATIONS
Jean Piaget's theory. the extent to which a child's attention is focused on states, the appearance of an object, rather…