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PERSEVERATION-CONSOLIDATION HYPOTHESIS

the hypothesis postulating that data goes through two phases in memory cultivation. During the first phase, the memory is retained

PERSONAL DATA SHEET

a survey modeled to attain biographical information about an individual, consisting of age, gender, education, profession, interests, and health history.

PERSONAL-GROWTH LABORATORY

a sensitivity-training course or group which tries to cultivate the engaged parties' capacities for constructive unions, creative strife, leadership, and

PERSONALITY STRUCTURE

the ordering of the personality with regard to its basic elements and their union with one another. Structural theories are

PERSONNEL TRAINING

with regard to industrial and organizational environments, a program modeled to attain such objectives as orientation of new workers, growth

PESSIMISTS

individuals who consistently expect negative or unfavorable things to happen to them and to other people or who are otherwise

PHALLIC PRIDE

with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the sense of authority over others and feelings of power experienced by males whenever they

PHANTOSMIA

noun. comprehension of a scent whenever no scent stimulant exists.

PHATIC COMMUNICATION

spoken or penned correspondence which is aimed mainly at establishing or preserving cultural unions instead of to transmit data.

PHENOTHIAZINES

a set of chemically corresponding substances, the majority of which are utilized as antipsychotic drugs, initially cultivated as such in

PHILIA

suffix: irregular craving or magneticism.

PHOBIC ANXIETY

anxiety which centers upon or is directed toward items or scenarios which symbolize the authentic fear but posit minimal if

PHONETICS

noun. the department of language which analyzes the physical properties of speech noises and the physiological ways that these are

PHOTIC DRIVING

the impact wherein the electrical activity of cortical neurons, as gauged through electroencephalography, is changed by rhythmically displayed light stimulants,

PHOTOPIC LUMINOSITY

the relative efficacy of multiple varied wavelengths of light for visual acuity under light-adapted states.

PHTHINOID

adjective. designating an assortment of the asthenic constitutional body type in Kretschmer typology wherein the physique is underdeveloped and generally

PHYSICALISM

noun. 1. the principle which posits that reality contains matter and that mind is thus, reducible to matter. 2. the

PICK'S DISEASE

a type of dementia marked by ongoing degeneration of the temporal and frontal regions of the brain with the existence

PIGMENT EPITHELIUM

the sole cuboidal layer of pigmented cells which abuts the ends of the photoreceptors in the retina. The pigment within