Category: S

  • Structured classroom

    Traditional classroom.  

  • Structured answer test

    An objectively scorable instrument by means of which the learner indicates an answer to each test item by checking the best or correct choice among several alternatives presented.  

  • Structure

    In sociology, the stable, patterned features of a social system. In quality management, a term referring to the resources and organization of the health care institution. It is commonly stated that three things can be measured in relation to quality: structure, process, and outcome. “Process” refers to the things done. “Outcome” is a somewhat vague…

  • Structural theory

    A Freudian theory that identifies the three parts of the human psyche: the id, ego, and superego.  

  • Structural principles of language

    Rules that describe principles according to how native speakers of the language actually arrange their words in sentences. Sentences formed according to these principles are called well-form or grammatical, prescriptive rules.  

  • Structuralism

    A school of psychology based on the study of the effects of specific stimuli on the sensory experience.  

  • Structural differentiation

    The organization and specialization of tissues and organs within the body of the developing organism.  

  • Structural defects

    Genetic defects affecting the body parts, size, and shape.  

  • Stroop effect

    A marked decrease in the speed of naming the colors in which various color names are presented when the colors and names are different. An example of automatization.  

  • Strontium-90

    A radioactive element found in fallout from atomic or nuclear explosions. An isotope of strontium which is formed in nuclear reactions and, because it is part of the fallout of nuclear explosions, can enter the food chain, attacking in particular the bones of humans and animals. A radioactive isotope that emits beta rays: it is…