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POSITIVE EMOTION

an emotional response modeled to dictate a positive affect.

POSITIVE TRANSFER

1. the bettering or embellishing of current learning by former learning.

POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME

continual, pervasive modifications in mental skills and emotional operating which take place as an outcome of diffuse trauma to the

POSTHYPNOTIC AMNESIA

a person's inability to recall what happened during a hypnotic trance. Commonly, the involved party is directed to forget the

POSTSYNAPTIC

adjective. 1. of or corresponding to the area of a neuron in a synapse which is recipient to and reacts

POSTURAL REFLEX

any of a multitude of automatic motions which function to preserve body posture.

POWER DISTANCE

the extent to which a society accepts an unequal distribution of power in establishments, facilities, or societal constructs at large.

PRACTICE TRIAL

the first of a sequence of chances to react to a test, that is rendered to engaged parties to familiarize

PRECAUSAL THINKING

the propensity of a young kid to interpret natural occurrences, like clouds, wind, and rain, with consideration to intentions and

PRECONVENTIONAL LEVEL

with regard to Kohlberg

PREDICTIVE EFFICIENCY

the amount or proportion of accurate predications which can be rendered from a specific test.

PREFERENTIAL EFFECT

with regard to parapsychology experiments, the discovery that an involved party's calls or guesses are more correct for one group

PRELINGUISTIC

designating or corresponding to the time in an infant's life prior to the learning the power of speech.

PREMORBID SCHIZOPHRENIA

the quality of psychological, emotional, and physical operating within someone before the onset of schizophrenia.

PREOPERATIONAL THOUGHT

the representative, prelogical and intuitive thinking typical of kids in the second major phase of mental growth.

PREPUCE

noun. a concealing fold of skin, particularly the skin concealing the glans penis in boys and the clitoris in girls.

PLEXUS

noun. a network of alike structures which are operationally or anatomically interlinked.

POINT METHOD

a technique of assessing jobs for the reason of establishing salary or wage levels wherein a multitude of compensable job

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

advocacy of or adherence to the belief that anything, specifically language, which might be offensive to or biased against someone

POLYGRAPH

noun. a tool which gauges and documents a lot of physiological symptoms of anxiety or emotion. The tool has been