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…
PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
an educational strategy or map for kids who are beneath the necessary minimum age for engagement in typical classroom work.
PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR
an approach to grammar wherein a sequence of rules is utilized to differentiate appropriate usage from its inappropriate counterpart and…
DEFENSIVE IDENTIFICATION
When the abused person identifies with the abuser or with the group that identifies the perpetrator.
DEFENSIVE PROCESSING
Seeking out, encoding or interpreting information that supports an initial attitude. See biased elaboration- counter argument- selective information processing.
DEFERRED IMITATION
Imitating an act some time after it happened. Proposed by Jean Piaget and first seen at around 18 months old.
OBJECTIVE TEST
an examination modeled to induce a particular response, accurate or inaccurate. A true or false examination is one instance of…
OBJECTIVISM
noun. 1. the position that decisions about the exterior world can be mandated as authentic or not authentic, independent of…
OBJECTIVITY
1. the propensity to base decisions and perceptions on exterior information instead of on subjective aspects, like private emotions, beliefs,…
OBJECT-ORIENTED PLAY
the voluntary changing of items, like clanging or throwing them, within the framework of play.
OBJECT-SUPERIORITY EFFECT
in visual comprehension jobs, the finding that decisions about a briefly shown line are made more effectively and successfully whenever…
OBLIGATE CARRIER
a person whose mother/father and youth, or whose monozygotic twin possesses a specific inherited mutation, indicating that the person must…
OBLIQUE ROTATION
a rotational program utilized in factor examination whenever at least two aspects are corresponded.