PERCEPTUAL FIELD
with regard to gestalt psychology, the entirety of the surroundings which someone understands at a specific time- that being, all…
PERCEPTUAL TRANSFORMATION
1. any change in a percept generated by (i) an addition to, elimination from, or modification in a physical stimulant…
PERFORMANCE GOAL
1. with regard to the motivational theory of American personality psychologist Carol Dweck, the objective of showing other people who…
PERIODICITY THEORY
the theory posing that pitch is encoded within the temporal anatomy of the neural reactions to noises, particularly in the…
PERIVENTRICULAR WHITE MATTER
tissue comprised majorly of myelinated nerve fibers which encompasses the lateral cerebral ventricles.
PERSONAL DISJUNCTION
a person's feeling or interpretation of dislikeness or discrepancy between what is or may be and the true reality or…
PERSONAL-HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE
a survey which documents data about an individual's special skills, interests, extracurricular activities, home life, and any health-related, emotional, or…
PERSONALITY TEST
any tool utilized to assist in assessment of character or measuring of character traits. Personality tests might gather self-report information,…
PERSONOLOGY
noun. the analysis of personality from the holistic viewpoint, based upon the theory posing that someone
PHALLIC SADISM
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, violence which is correlated with the kid's phallic stage of psychosexual growth. The kid perceives…
PHARMACODYNAMIC TOLERANCE
a type of drug tolerance wherein the chemistry of the brain comes to be acclimated to the existence of the…
PHENELZINE
noun. a monoamine oxidase inhibitor which pumps out its antidepressant impacts by irreversibly typing itself to monoamine oxidase, thereby preventing…
PHILLIPS RATING SCALE OF PREMORBID ADJUSTMENT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
a way of studying the pre-morbid adaptation of clients afflicted by schizophrenia as part of a determination of their prognosis.…
PHOBIC ATTITUDE
postulated by American psychotherapy professional Frederick Fritz S. Peris, a behavioral trend obviously marked by disturbances in the consciousness of…