PRETRIAL PUBLICITY
Newspaper, television, radio and internet coverage that may or may not lead prospective jurors to form an opinion on guilt…
PRIMARY PREVENTION
A regimen of programs and research with the main goal of promoting physical, behavioral and mental health in the nonclinical…
PROFESSIONAL MANAGER
A professional manager occupies a managerial position with an organization and is set apart from other managers by being given…
PROTECTIVE REFLEX
Also called protective response, protective reflex describes the reflexive withdrawal of the body or parts of the body from either…
PSYCHIC APPARATUS
Sigmund Freud divided this psychoanalytical theory into unconscious, preconscious and conscious areas and later revised the terminology to include id,…
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Interpretation and integration of gathered data to come to a conclusion regarding the psychological and physiological state of a particular…
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
The scientific study of mental disorder(s). The field covers the theory, research, diagnosis and treatment of psychological diseases. It is…
RADICAL BEHAVIORISM
Radical behaviorism is the school of thought that behavior, rather than consciousness should be the primary topic for study when…
REACH ENVELOPE
The area that an operator of a machine or tool can reach while sitting or standing during the task. It…
REALISTIC THINKING
Realistic thinking is encapsulated thinking processes grounded in an honest appraisal of all relevant data and conditions in different situations.…
REFERENTIAL SIGNAL
Indications provided by an animal which appear to supply information regarding certain environmental events and objects.
RELATEDNESS
Reciprocity of factors like trust and empathy between two or more individuals in a relationship.
RESEARCH QUESTION
Methodological point of departure for scholarly research in either the natural sciences or the humanities.
RESPONSE STYLE
A set of responses generally emanating from dispositional factors instead of situational ones.
RETROACTIVE INTERFERENCE
When learning fresh content, the interference which inhibits the capacity to recall content or actions formerly studied, particularly in the…
RISKY SHIFT
Predilection for decisions made in a group setting to be less conservative, more experimental, and more dangerous than would be…