| 1. | Michel Pablo | Michel Pablo (Greek: Μισέλ Πάμπλο; August 24, 1911 - February 17, 1996 ) was the pseudonym of Michalis N. Raptis (Greek: Μιχάλης Ν. Ράπτης), a Trotskyist leader of Greek origin. He began More… 3.5 KB |
| 2. | PGR | PGR PSYCHOGALVANIC REFLEX. An American equivalent of the British GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE. |
| 3. | Pacifism | Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes More… 2.1 KB |
| 4. | Pacing | 1- providing tasks that will lead the learner at a rate appropriate to his developmental speed. 2- forcing or controlling the speed with which an activity is carried out. |
| 5. | Pacing genes | Genes that set the pace for emerging systemsof development, such as motor coordination, that are characterized by the gradual appearance of different behaviors at different stages. |
| 6. | Pacinian corpuscle | a specialized, encapsulated neuronal ending believed to mediate deep pressure and joint sensitivity. |
| 7. | Padded cell | A cell in a mental hospital with cushions lining the walls; this is done for the patients who want to commit suicide. The pads prevent the patients from hurting themselves by hitting their More… 0.3 KB |
| 8. | Paganism | Paganism is the blanket term given to describe religions and spiritual practices of pre-Christian Europe, and by extension a term for polytheistic traditions or folk religion worldwide seen More… 2.2 KB |
| 9. | Pain | 1- unpleasantness; the opposite of pleasure. 2- the sensation resulting from damage to tissue. 3- the stimulation of the free nerve ending receptors on the skin. See also: Pain sense |
| 10. | Pain disorder | A somatoform disorder in which the person complains of severe and prolonged pain that is not explainable by organic pathology. It tends to be stress related or permits the patient to avoid More… 0.3 KB |
| 11. | Pain sense | a sensory modality whose receptors are free nerve endings and is experienced both on the periphery and internal parts of the body. See also: Pain |
| 12. | Pain spot | a point or spot on the skin particularly sensitive to pain. Such spots may be stimulated by sharp instruments or by electrical stimuli discharged from a condenser. See also: Pain, Pain More… 0.3 KB |
| 13. | Pair by association | In relation to psychology to "pair by association" is the action of associating a stimulus with an arbitrary idea or object, to elicit a response, usually emotional. This is done More… 0.7 KB |
| 14. | Paired associates | in experimental investigation of learning, items (words, nonsense syllables, numbers, etc..) presented in pairs with one as the stimulus item, the other as the response item. The More… 0.3 KB |
| 15. | Paired comparison method | a psychophysical technique in which the stimuli are compared with each other, pair by pair, in all possible combinations; that is, A is compared with B, with C, with D, etc, then B is More… 0.3 KB |
| 16. | Pairwise comparison | Pairwise comparison generally refers to any process of comparing entities in pairs to judge which of each pair is preferred, or has a greater amount of some quantitative property. The method More… 1.5 KB |
| 17. | Paleopsychology | paleopsychology The study of psychological processes supposedly left over from an earlier stage of human EVOLUTION. For example, lung's suggestion of a COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS. |
| 18. | Palmistry | the pseudoscience of character and personality description by reading lines, prominences, shape and other characteristics of the hand. |
| 19. | Pancritical rationalism | Pancritical rationalism (PCR), also known as Comprehensively Critical Rationalism (CCR), is a development of critical rationalism and panrationalism originated by William Warren Bartley in More… 0.5 KB |
| 20. | Panic attack | Panic attacks are sudden, discrete periods of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems (spastic colon) and discomfort that are associated with a variety of More… 7.5 KB |
| 21. | Panum phenomenon | the principle that if two lines close together are presented to one eye and a third line to the other eye, and either of the first two is combined with the third stereoscopically, then the More… 0.3 KB |
| 22. | Paper-and-pencil | paper-and-pencil test Any kind of test or PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE that requires written answers. |
| 23. | Paradoxical sleep | paradoxical sleep A stage of sleep during which there is a great deal of electrical activity in the BRAIN while the muscles are very relaxed and the sleeper is difficult to rouse. The More… 0.4 KB |
| 24. | Parakinesis | parakinesis A term used in PARAPSYCHOLOGY to describe what appears to be the movement of objects by unknown powers. |
| 25. | Parallax | parallax The PERCEPTION of objects as moving when the eyes are moved. Objects closer than the point the eyes are fixed on seem to move in the opposite direction from the eye movements; More… 0.4 KB |