PEGBOARD TEST
a challenge of manual dexterity and fine motor speed wherein the partaker, first with their dominant hand, then with the…
PERCEIVED SUSCEPTIBILITY
a subjective approximation of the probability of personally contracting an illness, without any thought of severity. Commonly referred to as…
PERCEPTUAL DEFICIT
a handicapped capacity to order and perceive sensory experience, causing trouble in viewing, identifying, and understanding other individuals, scenarios, terms,…
PERCEPTUAL SEGREGATION
the pulling apart of one portion of a perceptual region from the whole by physical barriers or attention-diverting techniques.
PERFORANT PATH
the route of axons which perforate the subiculum to supply the hippocampus with main inputs.
PERIPHERAL ROUTE TO PERSUASION
the procedure wherein outlooks are cultivated or altered as a result of utilizing peripheral cues instead of cautiously examining and…
PERMUTATION TEST
a method of testing hypotheses based upon all potential permutations of cases to groups.
PERSONAL AROUSAL SCALE
a method for self-evaluation of the degree of activation utilizing the same particular standards for each evaluation.
PERSONAL STRIVINGS
personal objective systems which consist of many interrelated goals, some of which might support each other while other goals might…
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…