POSTEMPLOYMENT SERVICES
1. with regard to vocational rehabilitation, follow-up help or programs modeled to assist recently employed people with impairments to acclimate…
PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME (PWS|
a congenital disorder characterized by cognitive retardation, short height, hypogonadism, insensitivity to pain, hypotonia, obesity, and short feet and hands.…
PRECHIASMATIC VISUAL DEFICIT
a visual disability inflicted by injury to the portion of the visual system in front of the optic chiasm. This…
PREFERRED PROVIDER ARRANGEMENT (PPA)
a contract-based agreement between a healthcare insurer and a healthcare provider or group of such who agree to render healthcare…
PREMACK'S PRINCIPLE
the position that the chance to participate in behavior with a fairly high baseline probability will positively support behavior of…
PREMOTOR THEORY OF ATTENTION
a theory positing that attention is a byproduct of the mechanisms which generate behaviors or motor reactions. It is based…
PREPARADIGMATIC SCIENCE
a science at a primitive phase of growth, prior to it attaining a paradigm and whenever there is no consensus…
PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE
anxiety felt by someone who is nearing release from an institutional facility and re-emergence into the tangible daily world.
PACINIAN CORPUSCLE
a form of cutaneous receptor organ which is sensitive to vibration and contact. It contains a nerve-fiber ending encompassed by…
PALINOPSIA
the continuation or reappearance of an image after the stimulant has been eliminated. Palinopsia is correlated with posterior brain damage,…
PAPEZ CIRCUIT
initially explained by American neuroanatomist James W. Papez, a circular composition of nerve centers and fibers in the brain which…
PARADIGM CLASH
with regard to science or philosophy, the conflict which takes place whenever a new group of basic presumptions about reality…