| 1. | S W A L K | S.W.A.L.K. is an acronym usually seen on a letter of a courting couple. It means Sealed With A Loving Kiss and is one of several acronyms that seemingly originated during the 2nd World War. A More… 0.3 KB |
| 2. | SQ3R | SQ3R Along-established study method to aid textbook learning (Survey the material generally, Question the issues it contains, Read the material thoroughly, Recite key points and Review the More… 0.2 KB |
| 3. | Sabellianism | In Christianity, Sabellianism (also called modalism, modalistic monarchianism, or modal monarchism) is the nontrinitarian belief that the Heavenly Father, Resurrected Son and Holy Spirit are More… 1.7 KB |
| 4. | Sabians | The Sabians (Arabic: صابئين, Hebrew: צבאים) were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary More… 1.8 KB |
| 5. | Saccadic movement | saccadic movement The jumping of the eye from one point of fixation to another, as in reading. |
| 6. | Sacral devision | the lower part of the autonomic nervous system in the region of the sacrum. Sacral fibers, along with those arising out of the cranial division, are parasympathetic in function while More… 0.3 KB |
| 7. | Salpetriere | An institution for insane women founded in 1656 in paris which was transformed by Philippe Pinel from an asylum into a hospital whe he became its director in 1795. Later in 1860s the More… 0.6 KB |
| 8. | Sampling | is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of More… 1.0 KB |
| 9. | Satyriasis | satyriasis An OBSESSION with sex in men; the male equivalent of NYMPHOMANIA. |
| 10. | Scapegoat | scapegoat The object of DISPLACED aggression. In Biblical times the Israelites sent a pure white goat out to die in the wilderness once a year, on the Day of Atonement, carrying the sins More… 0.4 KB |
| 11. | Schema | schema A mental model or framework within which new experiences are digested. Extensively used by PIAGET in his descriptions of the way in which children make sense of the world at More… 0.2 KB |
| 12. | Schispoid | Is often used to describe schizophrenia-like symptoms, yet without a diagnosis of schizophrenia being made. More accurately, it is a shortened from of the schizoid personality disorder, More… 0.4 KB |
| 13. | Schizophrenia | A general name for a group of psychotic reactions characterized by withdrawal, disturbances in emotional and effective life, and depending upon the type, the presence of hallucinations, More… 3.1 KB |
| 14. | Schizophrenia in remission | A diagnosis label referring to the fact that a client has had periods of schizophrenia, but at the time the diagnosis was made, was free of schizophrenic symptoms, There is considerable More… 0.5 KB |
| 15. | Schizophrenogenic family | A term given to a family that has poor communication patterns and high levels of conflict among its members. The idea of a schizophrenogenic family has been implicated with the development More… 0.5 KB |
| 16. | Schizotypal personality disorder | Schizotypal personality disorder, or simply schizotypal disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, odd behavior and thinking, and often More… 1.5 KB |
| 17. | Scholasticism | Scholasticism is derived from the Latin word scholasticus (Greek: σχολαστικός), which means "that [which] belongs to the school", and was a method of learning taught by the More… 1.2 KB |
| 18. | School counselor | A school counselor is a counselor and educator who works in K-12 schools to provide academic, career, college readiness, and personal/social competencies to all students and other More… 1.6 KB |
| 19. | School psychology | Is an applied psychology specialty that blends the knowledge bases of education and psychology into a professional practice that delivers services to clients of various ages, primarily More… 2.0 KB |
| 20. | Scientific method | the techniques employed by scientists in the pursuit of knowledge. The scientist may utilize either naturalistic observation or experimentation. Naturalistic observation is the objective More… 0.5 KB |
| 21. | Scotoma | scotoma A blind area of the RETINA, usually in addition to the normal BLIND SPOT found in every eye . |
| 22. | Screen memory | (in psychoanalysis); fragmentary childhood memories that have been able to overcome the repressive forces of the ego but which, like dreams, are condensed, symbolic, and reveal displacement More… 0.2 KB |
| 23. | Seashore test | Seashore test A series of recorded tests of musical abilities developed by the American psychologist Carl Seashore. |
| 24. | Seashore tests of musical talent | a series of recorded tests of pitch discrimination, tonal memory, loudness, discrimination, rhythm, time, and timbre, useful in identifying the relative standing of an individual on the More… 0.2 KB |
| 25. | Secondary intersubjectivity | Simon Baron-Cohen makes it clear that ID and EDD separately or together are sufficient to enable the child to regognize dyadic ralations between the other and the self, or between the More… 1.3 KB |