Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Personal development plan
An analysis of one’s strengths and weaknesses with plans to improve one’s performance and effectiveness.
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Personal contract
A document that outlines personal health goals and activities that can be evaluated as progress toward achievement is made.
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Personal constructs
The ways in which humans construe, interpret, or attach meaning to experience.
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Personal attributes
One’s physical or mental characteristics. Physical characteristics are (a) physical abilities basic to normal functioning and (b) physical abilities that are generally referred to as talents. Mental attributes are (a) intellectual and functional, (b) emotional functioning, and (c) unusual talents.
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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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