PRIMAL FANTASY
Theoretically, the many and varied fantasies children use to explain to themselves about sexual experience while too young to have…
PRIMARY CARETAKER STANDARD
Utilized in child custody disputes, the primary caretaker standard evaluates each parent and generally awards custody to that parent that…
PRIMARY GROUP
An individual's small group of friends or acquaintances that help foster and maintain their attitudes, social mores and values.
PRIMARY PERSONALITY
In regards to an individual with dissociative identity disorder, primary personality refers to the original personality and not to any…
PRIMARY TASTE
Primary taste is the idea that the sense of taste is actually composed of a range of tastes such as…
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Statistically, a technique that completely reproduces an interrelationship amongst many correlated variables with a smaller number of "principle components" that…
PROBABILISTIC FUNCTIONALISM
As put forth in the proposal by U.S. psychologist Egon Brunswick, the theory of probabilistic functionalism proposes that environmental cues…
PROBLEM BEHAVIOR
Behavior that is determined to be destructive, antisocial or against the common good.
PROCEDURAL MEMORY
Procedural memory is defined as long-term memory of the skills required. Often procedural memory is easier shown than explained. For…
PROECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
Behavior that actively promotes the quality of nature and the environment. For example, proecological behavior includes such activities as recycling…
PROGESTERONE
Progesterone is a female hormone secreted by the corpus luteum in the ovary. It stimulates proliferation of the lining of…
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION
Progressive education was originally tied to John Dewey's philosophy, which emphasized experimentalism as opposed to dogmatism when teaching, learning by…
PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION 1
A defense mechanism as described in psychoanalysis. Projection identification occurs when a subject projects their own unacceptable qualities onto another.…
PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN (POMC)
A precursor of several hormones, Propiomelanocortin or POMC is synthesized in the pituitary gland. After cleavage by enzymes at various…
PROPOSITIONAI NETWORK
A graphic representation of the relationship between the terms of a proposition and the relation between them.
PROSPECTIVE MEMORY
The memory that describes awareness and memory to do some act in the future, such as get gas before the…
PROTOTYPICALITY
The degree to which an item is an exemplar of the category of which it is a member.