PATHOLOGICAL AGING
modifications which take place due to age-based illness, as independent from modifications correlated with typical healthy aging.
PEER PRESSURE
the impact exerted by a peer group on its separate members to fit in with or conform to group expectations…
PENILE PROSTHESIS
an implanted tool which is utilized to regenerate male carnal potency. Such tools are commonly either constructed of malleable material…
PERCEIVED RISK
the degree to which people feel they're at risk of a threat to their health. Risk is a shared act…
PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE
the procedure wherein an incomplete stimulant is comprehended to be complete.
PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION
the procedure enabling properties like anatomy, trend, and type to be placed upon the senses to supply conceptual order. Every…
PERCIPIENT
1. adjective. able of perception. 2. noun. With regard to parapsychology, the supposed receiver of telepathic correspondences or other extrasensory…
PERFORMATIVE
adjective. designating an utterance whose very delivery achieves the stated objective of the speaker.
PERIPHERAL DYSOSTOSIS WITH NASAL HYPOPLASIA
a congenital irregularity marked by short, wide feet and feet hands a short, flat nose with nostrils shaped so they…
PERMISSIVE PARENTING
initially postulated by American developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind, a lax method of parenting wherein the mother, father or caregiver behaves…
PERSON IN THE PATIENT
with regard to the psychosomatic approach to therapy, the part of the client
PERSONAL PLAN
1. a conception of one's future which comprises objectives to be reached. 2. with regard to psychotherapy, a written proposal…
PERSONALITY BREAKDOWN
a disintegration of character anatomy and defenses which results in regressive and maladaptive behavior.
PERSON-CENTERED PLANNING
an individual planning procedure which centers upon individual's gifts, talents, inclinations, and achievements. In the case of an individual with…
PERSPECTIVISM
noun. a philosophical position rendered upon psychotherapy wherein it is presumed that there is no un-biased, context-independent truth.
PGO SPIKES
pontine-geniculo-occipital spikes: peaks, documented on an electroencephalogram, which take place while one is sleeping and are symptomatic of neural activity…
PHANEROTHYME
a word founded by British author Aldous Huxley to depict the impact of mind-altering drugs.