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…
PERCEPTUAL CLASSIFICATION
in classifying jobs, the gathering together of objects on the premise of perceptual traits.
PERCEPTUAL MAINTENANCE
with regard to environmental design, the developing of an environment to elicit sensory acts and to supply an adequate degree…
PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR MATCH
the capacity to relate perceptual information with a formerly acquired group of motor reactions. Someone with brain damage might have…
PERFORMANCE-OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC POO
the measure of performance on one job posed against the measure of performance on another job which is performed conjunctively…
PERIPHERAL DYSLEXIA
a type of acquired dyslexia which is marked by troubles in processing the visual factors of terms and, not like…
PERMISSIVE PARENTING
initially postulated by American developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind, a lax method of parenting wherein the mother, father or caregiver behaves…
PERSON IN THE PATIENT
with regard to the psychosomatic approach to therapy, the part of the client
PERSONAL PLAN
1. a conception of one's future which comprises objectives to be reached. 2. with regard to psychotherapy, a written proposal…
PERSONALITY BREAKDOWN
a disintegration of character anatomy and defenses which results in regressive and maladaptive behavior.
PERSON-CENTERED PLANNING
an individual planning procedure which centers upon individual's gifts, talents, inclinations, and achievements. In the case of an individual with…
PERSPECTIVISM
noun. a philosophical position rendered upon psychotherapy wherein it is presumed that there is no un-biased, context-independent truth.
PGO SPIKES
pontine-geniculo-occipital spikes: peaks, documented on an electroencephalogram, which take place while one is sleeping and are symptomatic of neural activity…
PHANEROTHYME
a word founded by British author Aldous Huxley to depict the impact of mind-altering drugs.
PHARMACOPEIA (PHARMACOPOEIA)
noun. a book, generally issued by a known authority, which details drugs and their chemical properties, readying, prescribed doses, technique…
PHENOMENAL SPACE
the surroundings as felt by a chosen individual at a chosen time. The word references not objective reality but personal…
PHENYLKETONURIA (PKU)
noun. an hereditary metabolic illness transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait and characterized by an insufficiency of an enzyme required…
PHILOSOPHY
noun. the intellectual discipline which utilizes cautious logical argument to elucidate basic queries, especially those regarding the nature of reality,…
PHONASTHENIA
1. voice exhaustion, that might be credited to extensive use, general debilitation, or aging. 2. a breathy voice or tone.
PHONOLOGICAL DYSLEXIA
a type of acquired dyslexia marked mainly by troubles in reading pronounceable non-words. Semantic errors are not observed in this…