Month: December 2020
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Scapegoat theory
The belief that one’s own feelings of guilt and suffering can be transferred to some other per¬ son or group, thereby relieving oneself of personal stress or pressures.
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Scapegoating
The directing of displaced hostility toward another person or group.
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Scaled behavior
A sequence of incrementally more intimate sexual acts that are followed by people within a particular culture.
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Savings method
A relearning method.
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Satisfaction phase
The feeling of pleasure that accompanies and follows sexual climax, sexual response cycle.
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Satisfaction disorder
A sexual dysfunction in which people do not feel satisfied or pleasured as a result of sexual acts.
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Satiety value
A food’s ability to satisfy feelings of hunger.
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Satiety center
The ventromedial region of the hypothalamus. An area in the ventromedial hypothalamus that modulates the stimulus to eat by sending inhibitory impulses, following a meal, to the feeding center, also located in the hypothalamus. Blood levels of nutrients and gastrointestinal hormones influence its activity.
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Sarole stretcher
A split-frame stretcher.
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Sarcoptes scabiei
The itch mite. The cause of scabies.