PEER GROUP
a set of people who share at least one trait, like age, profession, education, cultural status, or economic status.
PENETRATION RESPONSE
a reaction in a projective test which can be comprehended to consist of an implication of weakness or penetrability. Such…
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…
PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LEVEL
the point at which an employer must utilize engineering or administrative management techniques to lessen workers' encounters with particular risks,…
PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE (PVS)
an extended biomedical condition wherein rudimentary brain operations and, generally, spontaneous respiration go on, but there is no consciousness of…
PERSONAL ORIENTATION INVENTORY (POI)
an inventory aimed to measure self-actualization. It contains 150 objects which each consist of two statements depicting values or actions.…
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
the assessment of aspects like intellect, abilities, interests, capabilities, creative abilities, outlooks, and facets of psychological growth by many methods.…
PERSONAL-SPACE INVASION
the impeding by one individual into the personal space of another. The intruder improperly and uncomfortably crowds the other individual,…
PERSPECTIVE THEORY
a theory proposing that self-reports of outlooks on rating scales rely on the content and position of an individual
PFEIFFER'S SYNDROME
a hereditary disorder characterized by early fusion of the skull bones, causing a cranial deformity. The afflicted persons also have…
PHARMACOLOGY
noun. the department of science which consists of the analysis of compounds which interact with living organisms to change some…
PHENOMENAL MOTION
movement which might not be authentic, but is comprehended or felt as being such.
PHENYLETHYLAMINES
noun. a set of drugs with hallucinogenic impacts and a typical basic chemical anatomy. The prototype is mescaline, an alkaloid…
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
psychotherapy based upon philosophical standards of belief and outlook usually, as they correspond to mentality, feelings, and behavior, or based…