PAYTON, CAROLYN R
An American psychologist, Carolyn Payton is widely recognized as director of the Peace Corps in the late 1970's and as…
PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY
an interdisciplinary field of practice and research which confronts the interaction of physical behavioral, and feelings-based growth with wellbeing and…
PEER TUTORING
the teaching of one pupil by another one, who has expressed adequate competency in a subject to help another pupil…
PENNHURST CONSENT DECREE
a judicial decree mandating the closure of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the moving of…
PERCEIVED SIMULTANEITY
the integration of stimulants into a sole, aware percept in spite of minor discrepancies in their true time of arrival,…
PERCEPTUAL DEFENSE
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, a misguided comprehension which takes place whenever anxiety-eliciting stimulants are unconsciously skewed. If taboo terms…
PERCEPTUAL RIVALRY
the incompatibility of varying comprehensions of the same item. Whenever an ambiguous form allowing two varying perceptual interpretations is viewed,…
PERFORANT PATH
the route of axons which perforate the subiculum to supply the hippocampus with main inputs.
PERIPHERAL ROUTE TO PERSUASION
the procedure wherein outlooks are cultivated or altered as a result of utilizing peripheral cues instead of cautiously examining and…
PERMUTATION TEST
a method of testing hypotheses based upon all potential permutations of cases to groups.
PERSONAL AROUSAL SCALE
a method for self-evaluation of the degree of activation utilizing the same particular standards for each evaluation.
PERSONAL STRIVINGS
personal objective systems which consist of many interrelated goals, some of which might support each other while other goals might…
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
the slow growth of character in regard to temperament or characteristic emotional reactions, an identifiable way of life, personal parts…
PERSON-NEEDS ANALYSIS
with regard to industrial and organizational environments, an element of needs assessment wherein information is collected to determine if workers…
PERTURBATION
noun. 1. an anxious or stressful cognitive state. With regard to the framework of a complete or tried suicide, it…
PHAKOMATOSIS (PHACOMATOSIS)
noun. a genetic disorder marked by the development of benign nodule-like growths or tumors of the brain, skin, and eye.…
PHENOMENOLOGICAL DEATH
the subjective sense that one has come to be inert, unresponsive, a and insenstive.Phenomenological death takes place in some psychotic…