SENSUS COMMUNIS
The thought of Aristotle, this is the mental faculty that takes information from the 5 senses and integrates them. Latin…
SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM
triangular shaped translucent membrane that separates the anterior horns of the lateral ventricles of the brain.
SERIAL POLYGAMY
This term applies to a person who repeatedly gets married and divorced many times in a life time.
SEROTONIN SYNDROME
collection of symptoms that include agitation, delirium, confusion and an increased heart rate that is due to the excess activity…
SEX DETERMINATION
genetic mechanism that will determine the sex of offspring. See sex differentiation.
PONZO ILLUSION
an optical illusion wherein the upper of two parallel horizontal lines of equal length looks like it is longer than…
PORTER-LAWLER MODEL OF MOTIVATION
a design of work motivation which incorporates the valence instrumentality predictability theory with other theoretical viewpoints, inclusive of presence, preparedness,…
POSITIVE AFTERPOTENTIAL
a small, positive membrane potential reflected by a neuron or muscle cell while recovering from an ACI ion potential. The…
POSITIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA
a type of schizophrenia wherein positive indicators predominate, as observed in the individual
POSTCENTRAL AREA
a sensory area of the parietal lobe within the brain, behind the central sulcus, which has neurons engaged in the…
POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION
with regard to Bayesian analysis, the approximated distribution of the parameters of interest attained by mixing empirical information with one
POSTPOSITIVISM
noun. 1. the general stance of American psychology since the mid-twentieth century, whenever it stopped being dominated by logical positivism,…
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
in the DSM-IV-TR, a disorder which stems whenever someone sruvives, endures, or witnesses an occurence wherein they believe that there…
POVERTY OF CONTENT OF SPEECH
speech which is sufficient in amount but too general, recurrent, and absent of content to be qualitatively sufficient. It is…
PRCMORBID ADJUSTMENT
a gauge of the degree of an individual's operating prior to the onset of an acute psychological disorder. The gauge,…
PRECOMPETITION ANXIETY
escalated mental and physiological excitement in the week prior to a competition. Precompetition anxiety might encourage or hinder performance, depending…
PREEXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
a research design wherein there is no control group and no random designation of people to experimental conditions. This type…