PREVENTION DESIGN
Designing tools with the intent of a) reducing injury or error during operation and b) to enhance their ease of…
PRIMAL DEPRESSION
Early childhood depression supposedly brought on by distant or missing parents. The expression is today considered obsolete.
PRIMARY CARE PSYCHOLOGY
Primary Care Psychology is designed to provide psychological services within the setting of a clinic, private or public hospital or…
PRIMARY GAINS
The psychoanalytical theory that states some patients get primary gain from possessing neurotic symptoms. The very symptoms themselves relieve them…
PRIMARY ORGASMIC DYSFUNCTION
A dysfunction comparable to primary erectile dysfunction in men, primary orgasmic dysfunction describe a dysfunction in which a woman has…
PRIMARY TASK
Ergonomically speaking, when one has a multi-task assignment, the primary task is the one that takes priority. That is, it…
PRIMORDIAL PANIC
Also referred to as elementary anxiety, primordial panic is a reaction composed of fright and anger by schizophrenic children. It…
PRION DISEASE
One of a group of neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions, which are self-replicating abnormal proteins in the brain. Symptoms of…
PROBABILISM
In the empirical sciences, the concept of probabilism says that events can be predicted with a reasonably high degree of…
PROCEDURAL LEARNING
Procedural learning is learning by acquiring skill at a task. This differs from learning factual knowledge in that procedural learning…
PROCESSING-EFFICIENCY THEORY
Theory that has as its goal the explanation of the relationship between anxiety and performance.. In this theory, anxiety has…
PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION
In statistics, and invented by British statistician Karl Pearson, product-moment correlation is a statistic indexing the degree of liner relationship…
PROFOUND MENTAL RETARDATION
Profound Mental Retardation is defined as an individual having an IQ under 20. Approximately 1 % of those with retardation…
PROGRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS 1 (PAT)
Tests literally showing the achievement in the fields of reading vocabulary, reading comprehension and mathematics of a student following instruction…
PROJECTIVE DEVICE
A projective device is defined in consumer psychology as a word-association technique in which key words are included in with…
PROOFREADER'S ILLUSION
Proofreader's illusion is the illusion created when an error in a document or other written piece is missed due to…
PROPOSITIONAI KNOWLEDGE
Since propositions are the smallest units of meaningful thought, then propositional knowledge can be represented as a series of propositional…
PROSPECT THEORY
In decision making, prospect theory basically states that people are motivated more by the anxiety of loss than of potential…
PROTEIN DEFICIENCY
As the name implies, that condition where amounts of proteins in the system is too low to meet minimum standards…