screening test n
see admissions test
script n
also frame
(in cognitive psychology) units of meaning consisting of sequences of
events and actions that are related to particular situations. For example
a “restaurant script” is our knowledge that a restaurant is a place where
waitresses, waiters, and cooks work, where food is served to customers,
and where customers sit at tables, order food, eat, pay the bill, and depart.
A person’s knowledge of this “script” helps in understanding the following
paragraph:
Tom was hungry. He went into a restaurant. At 8 p.m. he paid the bill
and left.
Although Tom was most probably shown to a table, sat down, ordered a
meal, and ate it, these facts are not mentioned in the paragraph. The reader’s
knowledge of a restaurant script, i.e. the usual sequence of events for this
situation, provides this information. Script theory has been used in studies
of problem solving, reading, memory, and comprehension.
see alsoscheme
SD^1 n
an abbreviation for standard deviation
SD^2 n
an abbreviation for structural description
SD^3 n
an abbreviation for Students with Disabilities
SE n
an abbreviation for standard error
secondary articulation n
an articulation made by two of the organs of speech that are not involved in
the primary articulation. For example, the English alveolar lateral /l/ at the
end of a syllable, as in eel, is often made with the back of the tongue raised,
and thus has the secondary articulation of velarization.
see also assimilation
secondary cardinal vowel n
see cardinal vowel
secondary cardinal vowel