Glossary S
Glossary S
SD is the abbreviations of Discriminative stimulus, a stimulus that indicates whether or not a response will be reinforced; stimulus in the presence of which responses are reinforced and in the absence of which they are not reinforced.
SD (Discriminative stimulus) refers to ann environmental stimulus that is capable of eliciting a particular behavior ; for example, the sight of food may act as a discriminative stimulus for eating.
SDN is the abbreviations of Sexually dimorphic nucleus, a part of the medial preoptic Nucleus of the hypothalamus, larger in males than in females and linked to male sexual behavior.
Standard error
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SE is the abbreviations of Shared environmental influence, an environmental influence that people living together share and that should make these individuals similar to one another
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SE is the abbreviations of Shared environmental influence, an environmental influence that people living together share and that should make these individuals similar to one another
Season-of-birth effect refers to the tendency for people born in winter to have a greater probability of developing schizophrenia than people born in other seasons.
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) : seasonal affective disorder (SAD ) refers to mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically with depression occurring during the winter.
Seasonal pattern refers to a specifier for a depressive episode in which the individual has varying symptoms according to time of year, with symptoms usually developing during the sa
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