PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT
a style of management which consists of participative leadership and participative decision-making.
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
with regard to ergonomics, design practice which reinforces direct input from end utilizers during the growth cycle.
PARTICIPATORY ERGONOMICS
a procedure wherein workers at all levels within an establishment are actively and directly engaged in building or bettering ergonomic…
PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION
a form of program assessment wherein the people who rendered a service also have a part in the assessment of…
PARTICULARISM
noun. with regard to philosophy, a solution to the alleged criterion problem, that postulates that one can't know if one…
PART-LIST CUING INHIBITION
with regard to a remember test, disability of the ability to remember individual objects if some of the other objects…
PART-OBJECT
noun. 1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an item toward that an element instinct is directed. Such an item is…
PART-WHOLE PROBLEM I
the debate over whether to approach an issue, specifically a psychological one, from a holistic or an atomistic viewpoint, that…
PARVOCELLULAR SYSTEM
the part of the optic system which projects to or starts from small neurons within the four dorsal layers of…
PASS MODEL
postulated by American psychologists Jack A. Naglieri and J.I. Das in 1990, a design of intellect based upon the theory…
PASSIONATE LOVE
a form of love wherein carnal passion and a high level of emotional arousal are major factors- in addition to…
PASSIONFLOWER
noun. a climbing herb, Tassiflora incamata, belonging to the southeastern U.S. and other semi-tropical regions but also grown as an…
PASSIVE ALGOLAGNIA
interest and satisfaction stemming from experiencing pain during carnal activity, that being, from being the masochist in a union involving…
PASSIVE AVOIDANCE
a form of operant conditioning wherein the person must abstain from a graphic act or reaction which will generate a…
PASSIVE DECEPTION
the withholding of specific data from research-engaged parties, like not making them aware of the entire details of the study.…
PASSIVE EUTHANASIA
the voluntary withholding of remediation which may extend the life of a person who is nearing death. It is differentiated…
PASSIVE LEARNING
1. acquisition which might take place without the objective to learn, via exposure to data or behavior. 2. acquisition which…