Category: P

To sweat. To produce moisture through the sweat glands. To secrete fluid through the pores of the skin.  

Impression formation.  

The evaluation of individual teachers and administrators.  

A sexual attraction based on the traits making up the personality of one’s partner.  

Characteristic zones of distance that people maintain from one another, depending upon how well they know and like each other. In psychiatry, an individual’s personal area and the surrounding space. This space is important in interpersonal relations and in personal feelings of security and privacy.  

Power derived from the human relationship that one has with another.  

Keller plan.  

The alcoholic possesses certain traits that are indicative of alcoholism, e.g., feelings of inferiority, low frustration tolerance level, dependency, emotional immaturity, and fearfulness.  

Characterized by immaturity or maladjustment that results in a person being unable to maintain emotional equilibrium and independence under stress. There are three forms: a) emotionally unstable personality, b) passive aggressive personality; and c) compulsive personality.  

Any of several personality types that can rarely be altered by therapy and tend to decompensate to psychosis under stress: inadequate personality, schizoid personality, cyclothymic personality, and paranoid personality.