PREMORTEM CLARITY
a state of cognitive alertness, following a time of clouded or mixed up cognition, which sometimes returns before death. Premortem…
PRENATAL CARE
health, medical, and educational services rendered to or attained by a woman while she is pregnant. Such services are aimed…
PRENATAL COUNSELING
counseling rendered to couples or to single females who are pregnant, or planning for a pregnancy. Sometimes, it also encompasses…
PREOCCUPATION
noun. In a place of being lost in one's thoughts and self-absorbed, that spans from temporary absent-mindedness to an indication…
PREOCCUPIED ATTACHMENT
an adult attachment style which mixes an adverse interior working design of attachment of oneself, marked by doubt in one
PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
with regard to Jean Piaget's theory, the second major occurrence of mental growth, approximately between 2 and 7 years old,…
PREOPERATIONAL THOUGHT
the representative, prelogical and intuitive thinking typical of kids in the second major phase of mental growth.
PREPARADIGMATIC SCIENCE
a science at a primitive phase of growth, prior to it attaining a paradigm and whenever there is no consensus…
PREPARATION
noun. with regard to mental psychology, the procedure involved in escalating readiness for an activity.
PREPARATORY RESPONSE
any reaction in a sequence of actions which generates the coming about of an objective or support response. Preparatory reactions…
PREPARATORY SET
an acute awareness or readiness to react in a specific way to an expected stimulant, behavior, or occurrence. It might…
PREPOTENCY
noun. 1. the quality or state of having more power, impact, or force. 2. the ability for one of two…
PREPSYCHOTIC PANIC
a phase in the cultivation of schizophrenia wherein self-image is confused: people feel guilty, unable of being loved, embarrassed, or…
PREPSYCHOTIC PERSONALITY
traits and behaviors of an individual, like litigiousness, eccentricities, hypersensitivity, apathy, or withdrawal, which might be symptomatic of later cultivation…
PREPYRIFORM AREA
the olfactory projection region at the bottom of the brain's temporal lobe.
PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE
anxiety felt by someone who is nearing release from an institutional facility and re-emergence into the tangible daily world.
PRESBYOPIA
noun. an average, age-associated alteration in vision because of reduced lens elasticity and accommodative capacity, ending in lessened capacity to…