PILTZ'S REFLEX
an automatic and indeliberate escalation in the size of the pupil whenever attending to an item or occurence.
PLACE ATTACHMENT
feelings of linkage or relation to a geographic locale which renders safety and comfort and contributes to identity. Alone and…
PLANNED BEHAVIOR
behavior which is under the living being's direct management, in contrast to more reactive actions or reflexive behavior. In social…
PLATYKURTIC
depicting a distribution of scores flatter than a normal distribution, that being, having more scores at the extremes and less…
P3 COMPONENT
the third positive element of an event-related potential that is correlated with postperceptual cognitive procedures, like attention. It is at…
PAPAVERINE
an opium alkaloid initially isolated in the 1840s. It has no psychopharmacological function but is a potent vasodilator, being utilized…
PARALLEL PLAY
cultural play wherein kids play alongside to but not directly with one another.
PARANOID DELUSION
loosely, any of a wide array of untrue private beliefs tenaciously kept even in the presence of incontrovertible proof to…
PARAPHRASE
verb. to express the connotation of a text or statement in varied terms, frequently for the sake of brevity or…
PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
(PTA) an establishment comprised of educators and the parents of pupils. Its intents are to help mothers and fathers with…
PARTIAL SEIZURE
a seizure which starts in a centralized area of the brain, even although it might subsequently move to a generalized…
PART-OBJECT
noun. 1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an item toward that an element instinct is directed. Such an item is…