PERPLEXITY STATES
A form of mental confusion in which the patient is assailed with doubt and uncertainty about his own thoughts.Perplexity is…
PAIN DRIVE
drive directed to the removal of noxious stimulation.This basic drive is activated by special sense organs in the form of…
PAIRED ASSOCIATES LEARNING
A technique for studying learning. Words, syllables, digits, or other items are learned in pairs, and the subject is later…
PARALOGICAL THINKING
False, illogical thinking found particularly in schizophrenic reactionsParalogical thinking may take many forms. A patient who is preoccupied with his…
PARAMNESIA
A falsification or distortion of memory; a confusion of fact with fantasy in recalling events.We have all experienced some of…
PARANOID REACTION (GENERAL)
A psychotic reaction marked by more or less systematized delusions without personality disorganization or deterioration. The term was first applied…
PARANOID STATES
A psychotic disorder characterized by transient, poorly systematized delusions.Paranoid states appear to be intermediate between “true” paranoia and paranoid schizophrenia.…
PARATHYROID GLANDS
Two pairs of small endocrine glands adjacent to the thyroid gland in the neck, which regulate calcium metabolism and maintain…
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
A chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system, usually occurring between the ages of fifty and seventy. Atrophy takes…
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY
A personality trait disturbance characterized by immaturity and failure to develop an adequate balance between dependence and independence, and between…
PRESSURE OF ACTIVITY
Usually manic in nature, pressure of activity refers to a client engaging in actions compelled by the mania.
PRICE WATERHOUSE V HOPKINS
The 1989 case decided by the U.S Supreme court. The justices ruled that any decision by an employer to hire…
PRIMARY AGING
Primary aging refers to the simple and fairly universal effects of biological aging. Examples being wrinkles, loss of muscle mass,…
PRIMARY DEGENERATIVE DEMENTIA
Primary Degenerative Dementia or DDD is described in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III as dementia that has…
PRIMARY MATERNAL PREOCCUPATION
British Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott postulated the theory that, immediately after giving birth, the mother becomes fixated with the infant to…
PRIMARY REWARD
A stimulus that addresses a primary need such as food to a hungry person or company for a lonely individual.
PRINCIPLE OF OPTIMAL STIMULATION
Theoretically, the principle of optimal stimulation explains the tendency of organisms to learn responses that lead to a preferred level…
PRIVATE SELF
The part of a person's awareness known only to themselves. The private self is the only one aware of true…