PREMORBID PERSONALITY
1. character traits which were present prior to physical damage or another damaging occurrence or prior to the cultivation of…
PREMORTEM CLARITY
a state of cognitive alertness, following a time of clouded or mixed up cognition, which sometimes returns before death. Premortem…
PRENATAL INFLUENCE
any impact on the growing organism between conception and birth. Prenatal influences are inclusive of radiation impacts, maternal illnesses, substance…
PRENATAL MASCULINIZATION
the masculinizing impacts of androgens on fetal carnal anatomy and on neural pathways in the brain before birth.
PRENATAL STRESS
distress in a pregnant woman, that is characterized by escalation of stress hormones and other biological modifications, with an increased…
PREOCCUPATION
noun. In a place of being lost in one's thoughts and self-absorbed, that spans from temporary absent-mindedness to an indication…
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.
PREORGASMIC
1. corresponding to the state just prior to orgasm. It is marked by escalated breathing, heart beats per minute, and…
PREPARADIGMATIC SCIENCE
a science at a primitive phase of growth, prior to it attaining a paradigm and whenever there is no consensus…
PREPARATORY SET
an acute awareness or readiness to react in a specific way to an expected stimulant, behavior, or occurrence. It might…
PREPARED LEARNING
a species-specific and inborn propensity to rapidly acquire a particular kind of insight. Some correlations between stimulants, reactions, and supports…
PREPHALLIC
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, referencing the phases of psychosexual growth coming before the phallic phase.
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…
PREPULSE INHIBITION
reduction of a reflex reaction by displaying a weak stimulant just prior to the strong stimulant which induces the reaction.
PREPYRIFORM AREA
the olfactory projection region at the bottom of the brain's temporal lobe.
PRESCRIBING
1. with regard to psychotherapy and medicine, guiding or telling a client what to do in particular scenarios. 2. requesting…