POWER FUNCTION
1. a union wherein the values for one variant range as an act of another variant raised to a power.…
PRADER- LABHART-WILLI-FANCONI SYNDROME,
attested to by Heinrich Willi, Alexia Labhart, and Andrea Prader in 1956.
PRECENTRAL GYRUS
a ridge within the brain's frontal lobe, just anterior to the central sulcus, which is vital for motor control, being…
PREDICTIVE VALUE
as a predictor of a phenomenon of interest, the expected validity of a test.
PREFERRED NOISE CRITERION (PNC)
a sound level established for consistent ambient sound within enclosed spaces and utilized to establish or test for permitable background…
PRELOGICAL THINKING
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, outdated thought procedures which are typical of formative childhood, whenever thought is under the management…
PREORGASMIC
1. corresponding to the state just prior to orgasm. It is marked by escalated breathing, heart beats per minute, and…
PREPYRIFORM AREA
the olfactory projection region at the bottom of the brain's temporal lobe.
POINT OF SUBJECTIVE EQUALITY (PSE)
the value of a comparison stimulant which, for a rendered viewer, is equally plausible of being determined as higher or…
POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION
the transmission of political norms via cultural agents, like educational facilities, mothers, fathers, or other caregivers, peers and friends, or…
POLYSENSORY UNIT
a neuron within the CNS or a sensory receptor which generally reacts to more than one kind of stimulant, like…
POPULATION RESEARCH
the analysis of the numbers, and modifications in the numbers, of individuals and other living beings, concentrating on the reasons…
POSITION EFFECT
with regard to parapsychology experiments using zener cards or alike targets, an impact wherein the position of the target in…
POSITIVE FEEDBACK
1. an organization whereby some of the output of a system, whether biological or mechanical is fed back to escalate…
POSITIVISM
noun. a group of philosophical stances positing that all meaningful propositions must be reducible to sensory experience and viewing, and…
POSTEMPLOYMENT SERVICES
1. with regard to vocational rehabilitation, follow-up help or programs modeled to assist recently employed people with impairments to acclimate…