PEPTIDE HORMONE
any hormone which is categorized chemically as a peptide. Peptide hormones are inclusive of adrenocorticotropic hormone, oxytocin, cholecystokinin, corticotropin-releasing hormone,…
PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL
the degree to which an individual believes an action is under their active management.
PERCEIVED REALITY
an individual's subjective experience of reality, in comparison to objective, exterior reality. Patient-centered, humanistic-existential, and corresponding phenomenological theories postulate that…
PERCEIVED RISK
the degree to which people feel they're at risk of a threat to their health. Risk is a shared act…
PERCEIVED SELF
the subjective appraisal of private factors which one renders to their self.
PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY
postulated by Albert Bandura as a primary determinant of emotional and motivational conditions and behavioral change, a person's subjective comprehension…
PERCEIVED SIMULTANEITY
the integration of stimulants into a sole, aware percept in spite of minor discrepancies in their true time of arrival,…
PERCEIVED SUSCEPTIBILITY
a subjective approximation of the probability of personally contracting an illness, without any thought of severity. Commonly referred to as…
PERCENTILE
noun. the position of a score in a distribution coded to show the percentage of instances within the batch which…
PERCENTILE REINFORCEMENT
with regard to operant conditioning, a process wherein the probability that a reaction will be supported relies on the reaction…
PERCEPTION
noun. the procedure or outcome of becoming conscious of items, unions, and events by way of the senses, that comprises…
PERCEPTION DEAFNESS
incapacity to examine or understand sounds normally, because of some disability of the inner ear or auditory nerve pathways going…
PERCEPTIVE
adjective. depicting someone who is sensitive and discriminating, particularly in the judgment of individuals, art pieces, and so on.
PERCEPTRON
noun. a linked network of input and output nodes which serves as a beneficial design of associative neural networks. A…