PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
the slow growth of character in regard to temperament or characteristic emotional reactions, an identifiable way of life, personal parts…
PERSON-NEEDS ANALYSIS
with regard to industrial and organizational environments, an element of needs assessment wherein information is collected to determine if workers…
PERTURBATION
noun. 1. an anxious or stressful cognitive state. With regard to the framework of a complete or tried suicide, it…
PHAKOMATOSIS (PHACOMATOSIS)
noun. a genetic disorder marked by the development of benign nodule-like growths or tumors of the brain, skin, and eye.…
PHENOMENOLOGICAL DEATH
the subjective sense that one has come to be inert, unresponsive, a and insenstive.Phenomenological death takes place in some psychotic…
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
noun. a minor tumor which generally occurs in the adrenal medulla but might take place in tissues of the sympathetic…
PHINEAS GAGE
someone, frequently depicted in introductory psychology texts and manuals, who was made a celebrity whenever a railroad tie passed through…
PHYSICAL MAP
a kind of chromosome map which describes the actual physical locale of genes and inherited markers on the chromosome, with…
PHYSIOLOGICAL MOTIVE
a motive stemming from a basic physiological need, like the necessity for food.
PIECEWISE REGRESSION
a variant on typical least squares regression wherein a regression line containing many varying lines is fitted to the information.…
PLACE CELLS
neurons within the hippocampus which fire selectively whenever an animal is in a specific spatial place or progressing toward such…
PLANNED COMPARISON
a comparison among at least two means in analysis of variance or regression analysis which has been ascertained before the…