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  • Premarital intercourse

    Coitus before the persons (partners) are married.  

  • Premack principle

    A process whereby learners are allowed to engage in a self-selected activity after they complete the assigned work.  

  • Preludin

    A commercial preparation of phenmetrazine.  

  • Prejudice

    An attitude that predisposes a person to respond positively or negatively to a person, or group on the basis of social class, race, or category membership. A preconceived judgment or opinion formed without factual knowledge. A negative feeling about a certain group of people, based on stereotypes.  

  • Prehension

    An act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping. The primary function of the hand; includes pinching, grasping, and seizing.  

  • Pregnant

    Pregnant

    To enlarge. Specifically, the condition following fertilization of the egg through the birth process. With an unborn child in the uterus.  

  • Pregnancy

    The period of fertilization of the egg through the birth of a baby. Same as gestation period. The condition of being pregnant. The process of a mother growing a baby in her body, from the fertilized egg (ovum) no bigger than the dot on this letter “i” to a child perhaps 20 inches long and…

  • Pre-generalized learning

    Learning of prejudicial labels and the evaluations attached to them before a person has a clear understanding of what the labels mean.  

  • Pregavid

    Preceding pregnancy  

  • Prefrontal lobotomy

    A form of psychosurgery involving the severing of the nerves that connect the prefrontal lobe of the brain with the hypothalamus. A procedure, now considered obsolete, to cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure gained popularity in the mid-1930s and was hailed as a major step forward…

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