PREMORBID SCHIZOPHRENIA
the quality of psychological, emotional, and physical operating within someone before the onset of schizophrenia.
PREMOTOR THEORY OF ATTENTION
a theory positing that attention is a byproduct of the mechanisms which generate behaviors or motor reactions. It is based…
PRENATAL DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALY
a congenital irregularity which starts in the course of growth prior to birth.
PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS
identification of a pathological condition or the existence of illness or inherited irregularities within a fetus.
PRENATAL MASCULINIZATION
the masculinizing impacts of androgens on fetal carnal anatomy and on neural pathways in the brain before birth.
PRENATAL PERIOD
the growth-related time between conception and birth. With regard to human beings, it is generally separated into the germinal, embryonic,…
PREOEDIPAL
1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, regarding to the initial phases of psychosexual growth, prior to the cultivation of the…
PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
with regard to Jean Piaget's theory, the second major occurrence of mental growth, approximately between 2 and 7 years old,…
PREOPTIC AREA
a area of the hypothalamus lying above and just in front of the optic chiasm. Nuclei at this site are…
PREORGASMIC
1. corresponding to the state just prior to orgasm. It is marked by escalated breathing, heart beats per minute, and…
PREPARATORY INTERVAL
the time between a warning sign and the tangible occurrence of the stimulant.
PREPARATORY RESPONSE
any reaction in a sequence of actions which generates the coming about of an objective or support response. Preparatory reactions…
PREPARED LEARNING
a species-specific and inborn propensity to rapidly acquire a particular kind of insight. Some correlations between stimulants, reactions, and supports…
PREPAREDNESS
a hereditarily impacted predisposition for particular stimulants to be more sufficient than other people in inducing specific reactions.
PREPULSE INHIBITION
reduction of a reflex reaction by displaying a weak stimulant just prior to the strong stimulant which induces the reaction.
PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE
anxiety felt by someone who is nearing release from an institutional facility and re-emergence into the tangible daily world.
PRESCRIBING
1. with regard to psychotherapy and medicine, guiding or telling a client what to do in particular scenarios. 2. requesting…