PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT
a style of management which consists of participative leadership and participative decision-making.
PASSIVE AVOIDANCE
a form of operant conditioning wherein the person must abstain from a graphic act or reaction which will generate a…
PASSIVE-AVOIDANCE LEARNING
a typically utilizes misnomer for punishment. It is generally utilized in scenarios wherein the action which is punished takes place…
PATHOGNOMONIC
adjective. 1. depicting a sign, indication, or a set of signs or indicators which is symptomatic of a particular physical…
PATIENT-CLIENT ISSUE
the problem of how to recognize the person receiving psychological services or intervention. Psychiatrists, multiple clinical psychologists, and some other…
PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING
founded by Ivan Pavlov, a form of acquisition wherein an initially neutral stimulant, the conditioned stimulus, whenever coupled with a…
PECKING ORDER
a generally linear chain of power, status, and privilege which surpasses all others in some establishments and cultural groups. The…
PENETRATION
the introduction of the penis into the vagina. In the U.S., legal definitions in instances of rape or illicit sex…
PERCEPTUAL ANCHORING
1. the procedure wherein the factors of a stimulant are comprehended as being relative to another, anchoring, stimulant. 2. Reference:…
PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR LEARNING
the acquiring of a skill which necessitates connecting the perceptual discrimination of imperative stimulants with adequate motor reactions.
PERFORMANCE TEST
any challenge of capacity necessitating mainly motor, instead of verbal, reactions.
PERIPHERAL CUE
an aspect exterior to the merits of an argument which can be utilized to supply a fairly low-effort premise for…
PERMEABLE FAMILY
a more fluid and pliable form of the nuclear family which some sociologists consider to be an emerging standard in…
PERSISTENT PUBERISM
a condition wherein secondary carnal traits come to be paused in growth and people stay in effect pubescent for the…
PERSONAL FABLE
a belief in one's differences and invulnerability, that is an indicator of adolescent egocentrism and might continue further into one's…
PERSONALITY
noun. the configuration of personality traits and actions which includes a person's individual acclimation to life, inclusive of primary traits,…
PERSONALIZED INSTRUCTION
1. teaching centered upon the precise level of pupils' needs in a subject, regardless of curriculum or grade assignments 2.…