PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDERS
As defined in DSM-III, these are a group of disorders stemming from psychological factors as opposed to organic. These disorders…
PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE
A field of study that recognizes the importance of psychological aspects in the cause and treatment of diseases.
PSYCHOTOMIMETIC
Describing a substance tending to induce hallucination, delusion or like symptoms of psychosis. 2. A class of drugs used in…
PUBLIC TERRITORY
A social psychology term for a public space temporarily in use by an individual or group. For instance, the area…
PURPOSIVE SAMPLING
Knowingly sampling from a sub-population that shares the same characteristics as the population as a whole.
PRETERNATURAL
Preternatural phenomena are of a nature that they cannot be readily described and understood using the currently understood natural laws…
PRIMARY ABILITIES
Psychologist Louis L. Thurstone (1887-1955) first proposed in 1936 that there were primarily seven components of intelligence: Verbal Ability, Word…
PRIMARY DATA
The data first obtained through observation or experiment prior to analysis and statistical work up.
PRIMARY MASOCHISM
Theoretically, the part of the aggressive or death instinct directed inward to the individual after absorption and direction of a…
PRIMARY REPRESSION
A theory in Psychoanalysis that describes the first phase of repression. Ideas associated with instinctual desires are identified and prevented…
PRINCIPLE OF INERTIA
Also referred to as the inertia principle, this psychoanalytical theory explains the tendency of an organism to expend as little…
PRIVATE PRACTICE 1
A medical professional operating as a self-employed provider of care. For nations with public health care, private practice refers to…
PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION
A function in mathematics that assigns a value to the probability of a random variable taking on that value.
PROBLEM SPACE
The problem space is a set of all possible and logical steps to take to arrive at the solution to…