Month: December 2020

An area in the brain to which the mental effects of stimulation are conducted directly diffuse projection.  

Maintenance of health. Limiting the spread of illness to previously unaffected patients or populations. Within an organizational stress intervention context, primary prevention refers to strategies that attempt to minimize the source of stress and to promote a supportive organizational culture.  

Primary anorgasmia or preorgasm.  

The cells that have the potential of developing into mature ova during a woman’s reproductive life. The oocyte produced by mitosis of an oogonium.  

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the oral stage of psychosexual development in which the ego has not yet differentiated from the id.  

The major components of intelligence postulated on the basis of a factor analysis of performance on intelligence tests.  

The retention of the image of an object that persists for a very brief period of time following its presentation, secondary memory.  

Health status measured in terms of wellness. Persons falling within this level are for all practical purposes healthy or well, intermediate level of health; secondary level of health.  

The early elementary school grades, generally grades kindergarten through grade 3 intermediate level.  

The belief that the assignment of labels is a causal factor in abnormal behavior.