PREAVERSIVE STIMULUS
with regard to conditioning, a stimulant which comes before the display of an negative stimulant.
PRECONSCIOUS (PCS) 1
noun. with regard to the traditional psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, the degree of the psyche which consists of ideas,…
PREDICTION
noun. 1. an attempt to predict what will occur in a specific scenario, usually on the premise of past occurrences…
PREFERENCE METHOD
a research method wherein a living being selects one of many potential stimulants.
PREOEDIPAL
1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, regarding to the initial phases of psychosexual growth, prior to the cultivation of the…
PREPSYCHOTIC PANIC
a phase in the cultivation of schizophrenia wherein self-image is confused: people feel guilty, unable of being loved, embarrassed, or…
PLETHYSMOGRAPH
noun. a tool for gauging and documenting volume or volume modifications in organs or body tissues, like the blood supply…
POLIOENCEPHALITIS
noun. swelling of the brain's gray matter, because of an infectious illness.
POSITIVE DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS
a stimulant correlated with a contingency of positive reinforcement.
POSITIVE SYMPTOM
an indicator of schizophrenia which symbolizes an excess or distortion of normal operation, as separate from an insufficiency in or…
POSTGANGLIONIC AUTONOMIC NEURON
any neuron belonging to the SNS whose cell body resides within a ganglion of the sympathetic chain. These neurons innervate…
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
noun. a broad intellectual movement which grew from French structuralism in the late 1960s and 1970s.