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 CARE
health, medical, and educational services rendered to or attained by a woman while she is pregnant. Such services are aimed…
PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS
identification of a pathological condition or the existence of illness or inherited irregularities within a fetus.
PRENATAL INFLUENCE
any impact on the growing organism between conception and birth. Prenatal influences are inclusive of radiation impacts, maternal illnesses, substance…
PRENATAL PERIOD
the growth-related time between conception and birth. With regard to human beings, it is generally separated into the germinal, embryonic,…
PRENATAL STRESS
distress in a pregnant woman, that is characterized by escalation of stress hormones and other biological modifications, with an increased…
PREOPERATIONAL THOUGHT
the representative, prelogical and intuitive thinking typical of kids in the second major phase of mental growth.
PREOPTIC AREA
a area of the hypothalamus lying above and just in front of the optic chiasm. Nuclei at this site are…
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 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 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.
PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
an educational strategy or map for kids who are beneath the necessary minimum age for engagement in typical classroom work.
PRESCRIBING
1. with regard to psychotherapy and medicine, guiding or telling a client what to do in particular scenarios. 2. requesting…