Stagnation

Spike

Speech acts

Spectral reflectance

Spatial geometry

Somatosensory system

Somatomotor system

Somatic nervous system

Soma

Sociometry

Sociometric status-types

Sociogram

Socioecology

Sociodramatic play

Sociobiology

Social support

those positive, supportive features of an individual's environment which enable them to respond to and deal with stressful situations effectively.

the study of kin selection to account for animal and sometimes human, behavioural choices.

a stage of elaborate role-play amongst children over the age of 3 or 4, where pretend games are developed around various characters, such as mothers, fathers and babies, which are often influenced by books, TV programmes and films.

the study of how environment influences society in the process of natural selection and which perceives social systems as being flexible and subject to change over evolutionary time-scales.

a diagrammatic representation of the observation of friendships amongst groups of children.

the categorization of children as 'popular', 'controversial', 'rejected', 'neglected' or 'average' during sociometric studies, according to whether they are high or low on positive and negative nominations.

the study of friendships in groups, particularly of children.

the cell body of a neurone.

a system within the peripheral nervous systems which interacts with the outside world by conveying information from sensory receptors (in skin, muscles and joints) to the central nervous system and which sends motor signals to muscles and glands.

the system of sensory messages that passes from the cerebral cortex to the muscles in the periphery.

the system of receptors in the body that communicates the messages relating to sensation and touch.

in the ontogeny of environmental cognition as described by Piaget, the child's concept of space constructed on topological principles

the proportion of each incident stimulus wavelength that a surface reflects. spectral sensitivity the pattern of response of a neurone to different stimulus wavelengths.

in semantic theory, an action that confirms the intention of the party involved in it to do the thing uttered. See also locution, illocution, perlocution.

see action potentials

the opposite of generativity, this is one of the two polarities of the stage of maturity, as described by Erik Erikson, when the adult is unable to give to others in an unselfish way and becomes increasingly preoccupied with his/her own concerns.

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