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Stimulus-response theory
Stimulus-response theory In psychology, the theory that human responsivity is determined by contingencies of reward and punishment in the external environment.
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Psychology
The scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
Environment
The sum of the total of the elements, factors and conditions in the surroundings which may have an impact on the development, action or survival of an organism or group of organisms. The environment is as opposed to genetics. We are the product of our genetic inheritance and our environment.
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Stimate
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Stimuloton
A commercial name for sertraline hydrochloride, an orally administered antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) type. Sertraline is used medically mainly to treat the symptoms of depression.
Stimulus equivalence
If the stimulus controlling behavior is a pattern of light on the retina than an infinite number of images are equivalent in their effects.
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STD
Sexually transmitted disease, including but not limited to contagious genital infections.
Steroid hormones
A class of hormone biochemically constructed of the same components of which fats (lipids) are made They include the hormones of the testis, ovary, and adrenal cortex.
Stigmata
Signs, marks, or features that indicate special fitness or suitability.
Stigmatic paraphilia
One of a group of paraphilias characterized by triumph wrested developmentally from sexuoerotic tragedy by means of a strategy that incorporates lust into the lovemap on the condition that the partner be, like a pagan infidel, unqualified or ineligible to be a saint defiled.
Stigmatophilia
a paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on a partner who has been tattooed, scarified, or pierced for the wearing of gold jewelry (bars or rings), especially in the genital region. The same term applies to the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which the self is similarly decorated.
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Subcutaneous
Below the skin.
Supramasculinize
To masculinize in excess.
Sympathetic nervous system
Pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system which usually prepares the organism to deal more effectively with a situation of strife or emergency, as in fight or flight, the functions of which contrast with or reciprocate those of the parasympathetic system Paradoxically, the sympathetic system is also responsible for the physiological phenomenon of orgasm and/or ejaculation, but not sexual arousal.
SA Node
See Sino-Atrial Node.
Sino-Atrial Node
A part of the heart muscle, located next to the inlet from the Vena Cava, which is the "pacemaker" of the heart.
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