PHOTOPIC-SENSITIVITY CURVE
a graph of visual threshold as an act of wavelength under light-adapted conditions. The peak of the human lies at…
PHYLOGENETIC PRINCIPLE
the theory positing that ontogeny recapitulates Pirn ogeny in the growth of a living being. With regard to humans, this…
PHYSICIAN-HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION (PHO)
an establishment developed, owned, and overseen by at least one hospital and group of doctors to attain payer contracts and…
PHYSIOLOGICAL ZERO
the temperature at which an item in contact with the skin feels neither cold nor warm, that being, around 32
PICTORIAL REALISM
a model standard positing that pictures on a visual display ought to match the cognitive design of the utilizer.
PLACEMENT COUNSELING
1. services modeled to guide and help people to find suitable or optimal work. Placement counseling might consist of training…
PLASTIC SURGERY
a department of surgery which specializes in the restoration, rebuilding, and correcting of injured or diseased tissue to better the…
PAIRING HYPOTHESIS
the hypothesis appointing the critical attribute of Pavlovian conditioning as the temporal conjunction between a conditioned stimulant and an unconditioned…
PANIC DISORDER
in the DSM-IV-TR, an anxiety disorder marked by repetitive, sudden panic attacks which are correlated with (i) continual worry about…
PARADOXICAL DIRECTIVE
an instruction by a therapy professional toward the client to do exactly the opposite of what common sense would guide…
PARANOID TENDENCY
a tendency in regard to emotions of mistrust, persecutory beliefs, and aversive understandings of oneself and of other people.
PARASEXUALITY
noun. any type of carnal actions not consisting of average carnal acts performed with a consenting adult partner or normal…