Phi Phenomenon Ah Christmas, such a warm, family-oriented, wonderful time. And a time of visual illusion! One such visual illusion is the …
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Phenotype Phenotype refers to the visible expression of the information contained in a person’s genetic code (known as genotype). This includes whatever …
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Phallic Stage One of Freud’s five psychosexual stages of development where pleasure is centered around the genital region. The phallic stage is …
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Person-Centered Therapy Created by Carl Rogers, this form of humanistic therapy deals with the ways in which people perceive themselves consciously rather …
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Personality Disorders People with personality disorders have personalities that are outside social norms. Very often these people are not even aware that …
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Personality Personality is a person’s unique behavioral and cognitive patterns; OR, a person’s unique consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. For …
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Peripheral Nervous System The peripheral nervous system controls all voluntary and involuntary muscles and glands. Essentially, the peripheral nervous system contains all …
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Performance Appraisal A process in where an individual’s performance is scored and feedback is given. A large component in psychology is trying …
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Perceptual Set This is the expectation of a person to see or perceive something based on prior experience. Writers sometimes use this …
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Perceptual Constancy Perceptual constancy is the ability to recognize that an object or organism has not changed (remained the same object or …