PRIMARY SYMPTOMS
Also known as fundamental symptoms, primary symptoms are directly tied to a specified disorder. They form the basis of the…
PRIMITIVIZATION
Austrian psychoanalyst Enst Kris was the first to theorize that, in traumatic neuroses, a subject's higher ego functions like objective…
PROATTITUDINAL BEHAVIOR
Proattitudinal behavior is behavior that reflects and is in agreement with a held attitude. For example, if one dislikes a…
PROBE TECHNIQUE
A probe technique uses a memory test to ascertain whether a particular item was included in a list of items…
PROCEDURAL JUSTICE
Procedural justice is the recognized legal proceedings in court. The procedures must be followed to assure a fair and impartial…
PROCESSING SPEED INDEX
Used to measure the speed of nonverbal processing using the Wechsler adult intelligence scale.
PRODUCTIVITY
The relationship between the quality and/or quality of goods produced (output) and the time and materials needed to produce them…
PROGRESSION-REGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
This hypothesis makes the simple conjecture that learning leads to the utilization of more complex control strategies (progress) while stress…
PROJECTION NEURON
Also referred to as a Golgi Type 1 neuron, a projection neuron contains a long axon is distinguished by a…
PROPOSITIONAI CONTENT
The entire set of propositions. The set may require a single sentence, paragraph or longer piece.
PROSOPAGNOSIA
Caused either by congenital factors of by brain injury or disease prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces.
PROTECTIVE REFLEX
Also called protective response, protective reflex describes the reflexive withdrawal of the body or parts of the body from either…
PROTOTYPE in Psychology
It's a concept to comprehend how people classify and identify things, concepts, or experiences based on mental models called prototypes.…
PROXIMODISTAL DEVELOPMENT
Proximodistal development is the progression of motor development radiating from the center of an organism to the periphery. The classic…
PSEUDOCONVULSION
An older term for seizure not resembling an epileptic seizure although no medical cause can be found.
PSEUDONEUROLOGICAL
The suggestion of a neurological disorder. However it is merely a suggestion of the disorder and the subject is not,…
PSI-MISSING
Performance on parapsychology experiment testing that is far below chance expectations.