PROBABILISM
In the empirical sciences, the concept of probabilism says that events can be predicted with a reasonably high degree of…
PROCEDURAL LEARNING
Procedural learning is learning by acquiring skill at a task. This differs from learning factual knowledge in that procedural learning…
PROCESSING-EFFICIENCY THEORY
Theory that has as its goal the explanation of the relationship between anxiety and performance.. In this theory, anxiety has…
PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION
In statistics, and invented by British statistician Karl Pearson, product-moment correlation is a statistic indexing the degree of liner relationship…
PROFOUND MENTAL RETARDATION
Profound Mental Retardation is defined as an individual having an IQ under 20. Approximately 1 % of those with retardation…
PROGRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS 1 (PAT)
Tests literally showing the achievement in the fields of reading vocabulary, reading comprehension and mathematics of a student following instruction…
PROJECTIVE DEVICE
A projective device is defined in consumer psychology as a word-association technique in which key words are included in with…
PROOFREADER'S ILLUSION
Proofreader's illusion is the illusion created when an error in a document or other written piece is missed due to…
PROPOSITIONAI KNOWLEDGE
Since propositions are the smallest units of meaningful thought, then propositional knowledge can be represented as a series of propositional…
PROSPECT THEORY
In decision making, prospect theory basically states that people are motivated more by the anxiety of loss than of potential…
PROTEIN DEFICIENCY
As the name implies, that condition where amounts of proteins in the system is too low to meet minimum standards…
PROTOTYPE MODEL
The prototype model proposes the formation of an average of the members of a category and subsequently uses that average…
PROXY VARIABLE
A proxy variable can serve in the place of another if they have been shown to have substantially the same…
PSEUDOCOPULATION
Bodily contact between a man and woman, sometimes fully clothed where ejaculation occurs, but no penetration has actually taken place.
PSEUDONEUROTIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
Primarily a personality disorder as opposed to an actual form of schizophrenia. Patients who suffer from it are generally diagnoses…
PSYCHIC DETERMINISM
Psychic determinism is the position (most commonly credited to Freud) that psychic events occur because of an underlying cause that…
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Psychoanalysis, as formulated by its developer, Dr. Sigmund Freud, is a treatment of psychological disorder and treatments. It is based…
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Various theories regarding human functioning. Such theories are underpinned by the interplay of drives and internal forces of the subject.…