PASSIVE LISTENING
with regard to psychotherapy and counseling, attentive listening by a counselor or therapy professional without impeding upon or disrupting the…
PASSIVE MANAGEMENT BY EXCEPTION
a method of management wherein the manager only interrupts processes and takes over if subordinates aren't successful at meeting work…
PASSIVE RECREATION
a type of recreational therapy wherein the stress is on a person's entertainment or amusement, for instance, going to a…
PASSIVE REHEARSAL
a method for storing data in short-term memory wherein a person comprises few individual, different objects for each rehearsal set.
PASSIVE RESISTANCE
avoidance of a law, policy, or government via means which are not aggressive or violent, like fasting, civil disobeying, or…
PASSIVE SUICIDE
ambiguous actions which tend to be self-destructive, but not actively, and is, at time, considered to depict suicidal intent. Instances…
PASSIVE TOUCH
a type of touch marked by sensory experiences which take place whenever the viewer doesn't engage in movement. With regard…
PASSIVE TRANSPORT
the motion of compounds along a cell membrane without the use of energy by the cell. It comprises simple diffusion…
PASSIVE VOICE
with regard to language, the class of a verb utilized whenever the patient of the action presents as the grammatical…
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE
typical of behavior which is apparently innocuous, accidental, or neutral but which indirectly shows an unaware violent motive.
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER
a personality disorder of long standing wherein ambivalence toward the self and other people is shown by such manners as…
PASSIVE-AVOIDANCE LEARNING
a typically utilizes misnomer for punishment. It is generally utilized in scenarios wherein the action which is punished takes place…
PASSIVITY PHENOMENA
phenomena wherein people feel that some factor of themselves is under the management of other people. These factors can comprise…
PASTORAL COUNSELING
a type of counseling or psychotherapy wherein knowledge and standards stemming from the disciplines of theology and the behavioral sciences…
PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUE
the utilization of extremely fine-bore pipette microelectrodes, clamped via suction upon tiny spots of a neuron's plasma membrane, to document…
PATERNAL BEHAVIOR
behaviors by males directed toward care and safeguarding of their offspring. The direct form contains such behaviors as feeding, holding,…
PATERNALISM
a policy or outlook wherein those having power over other people extend this power into areas generally left to personal…