Category: P
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Personal agency
The ability a person has to influence events in the physical and social world.
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Persistent obesity
Obesity that stems from childhood and continues beyond adolescence, transient obesity.
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Perseverative error
In serial learning, a response that would have been correct had it occurred earlier in the list, anticipatory error.
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Peresecution (Delusioin)
Characterized by a person falsely believing that other people are enemies who in reality are not is accompanied by constant fear of bodily harm, delusions.
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Perquisites
Benefits beyond pay, mainly applied for executives.
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Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN)
A toxic substance present in smog that can damage and, under certain conditions, kill plants and irritate the eyes.
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Pernicious anemia
A progressive disease in which there is a decrease in the number and an increase in the size of red blood cells, resulting in weakness and gastrointestinal disturbances. Disease of vitamin B12 deficiency. Characterized by low numbers of red blood cells that are poorly formed and by demyelination of the sheaths of nerve tracts. Type…
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Permitil
A commercial preparation of fluphenazine.
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Permissive theory
In psychiatry and physiology, the idea that the production of abnormal amounts of norepinephrine and serotonin may be involved in depression.
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Permissive parents
Parents who use a minimum of discipline, believing that children should be allowed to develop in their own way without adult interference, authoritative parents; authoritarian parents.