Scapegoating

Scaffolding

Scaffold

Saturation

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Sample

Sagittal section

Rules of inference

Rough-and-tumble play

Role behaviour

Roles and specialisms

Roles and memberships

in the system for analysing responses to the 'Who Am I?' devised by C. Gordon, those groups that a person has had some choice about joining, as opposed to the ascribed characteristics assigned to them at birth.

in group membership, the skills manifested by certain members as leaders or experts within the group and whose role is thus more social- than task-related.

acts and activities which are associated with, and considered to be typical of, playing a particular social role.

a type of play amongst children, involving chasing and tackling each other, which most children by the age of 8 are able to discern from aggressive fighting.

a set of theories applied in the study of how people reason, the best known of which is the modus ponens, and which suggests that people encode what they know as sentences with certain formal structures and use a set of mentally encoded rules of inference to see what other sentences can be derived from them

S

a sectional cut across the brain made vertically from front to back.

the group of subjects or participants used in a study: the selection of people, animals, plants or objects drawn from a population for the purposes of studying that population.

an hypothesis associated with Benjamin Whorf and Edward Sapir that there must be an intimate connection between human language and human thinking. It is often presented in two versions: in which language determines thought (linguistic determinism); or in which different languages will encode different thoughts (linguistic relativity).

the intensity of a colour, for example, pink and red have the same hue, but red is more saturated. The most saturated colours are produced by monochromatic light.

the constructive support system provided by mothers and carers in order for the child to progress through the stages of language development. See language acquisition support system (LASS).

supporting the child's learning by providing structure and guidance, in the form of planned teaching and providing sequences of appropriate learning experiences.

the process of putting the blame for difficult economic circumstances or other sources of frustration on to some disliked but 'inferior' social group, and so increasing prejudice and intergroup hostility. A way of representing knowledge in the mind, whereby the representation of a particular topic

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