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SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS)

unexplained and unpredictable death of otherwise healthy baby that happens during sleep. Also called: crib death.

SUICIDE BY COP

a person who commits suicide by being shot by a policeman.

SUMMATIVE EVALUATION

1. Teaching assessment investigation, evaluation of pupil's accomplishment at the end of a course; 2. In evaluation investigation this is

SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS

pair of long two-directing bunches of neurons that connect the front and the back of the cerebrum. It consists four

SUPERSTITIOUS CONTROL

Misinterpretation that individual can affect results of certain situation by implementing certain actions that are supposed to change the frame

SUPPORTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY

type of psychotherapy which doesn't investigate what is the root of the particular psychological issue/problem, but rather provides ideas how

SURFACE THERAPY

type of psychological therapy that has a goal to minimize patients problems by implementation of supportive measures and to try

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

a group of statistical procedures to build models to determine when an event may occur,

SWITCH COST

the loss of efficiency when doing more than one task at a time.

SYMBOLIC DISPLACEMENT

mechanism of moving answer, usually emotional one, from its primary source to the one that is presented by it. To

SYMMETRICAL DISTRIBUTION

a distribution that is equal above and below the mean.

SYMPTOM FORMATION

Psychoanalytic theory. Developing a somatic or behavioural manifestation from an unconscious impulse that provokes anxiety.

SYNCHRONICITY

According to Carl Jung it is the occurrence of events simultaneously that have a meaningful connection when there is no

SYNESTHESIA

Is a condition where stimulation of one sense will arouse sensations in another.

SYPHILIS

It is a contagious disease which affect people. It is transmitted sexually but sometime it can be transmitted through a

SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT

A framework that is used to identify the profile and nature of the services that are required to give to