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