POLICE PSYCHOLOGIST
a psychologist whose primary job is to help law enforcement. Common tasks might consist of the screening and choosing of…
POLYETHISM
noun. the division of labor which takes place particularly among colonies of social insects, wherein each has a particular task,…
POOLED VARIANCE
the approximation of a single typical variance attained by mixing a lot of separate approximations of that variance. Commonly referred…
PORTEUS MAZE TEST
one of the original paper-and-pencil intellect tests, formed in 1913 and modeled to evaluate capacity to plan ahead and employ…
POSITIVE SELF-TALK
the covert expression of concepts which encourage the development of an ideal performance state and are driving or self-enhancing.
POSTCHIASMATIC VISUAL DEFICIT
a visual disability inflicted by injury to visual processing regions behind the optic chiasm. Postchiasmatic damage or illness impacts vision…
POSTEXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY
a process built to reveal demand traits wherein engaged parties are asked about the reactions they rendered in an experiment.
POSTREINFORCEMENT PAUSE
with regard to operant conditioning, the period of time which passes from the end of reinforcement until the subsequent reaction…
POSTURAL AFTEREFFECT
an alteration in posture which results as an aftereffect of previous arousal.
POVERTY OF SPEECH
excessively short speech with minimal elaborations which takes place in schizophrenia or sometimes in the framework of a major depressive…
PREATTENTIVE PROCESSING
an unconscious cognitive processing of a stimulant which takes place prior to attention being centered upon this specific stimulant from…
PRECONCEPTION
noun. a belief or expectation corresponding to some outlook item which is held prior to significant data about the item…
PREDICATE THINKING
a procedure of thought wherein items are thought to be alike or even twin-like because they share a specific trait.…
PREFERENCE FOR CONSISTENCY
initially postulated by American psychologists Jason T. Newsom and Melanie R. Trost, a characteristic showing the degree to which an…