Glossary P

Pro-social behaviour refers to co-operative, affectionate, or helpful behaviour intended to benefit another person.

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Proactive aggressors refer to highly aggressive children who find aggressive acts easy to perform and who rely heavily on aggression as a means of solving social problems or achieving other personal objectives

Proactive coping refers to a coping strategy that involves anticipating a problem and taking steps to avoid it.

Proactive interference is the tendency for old memories to interfere with the retrieval of newer memories. It is forgetting that is produced by prior learning Proactive interference is a phenomenon in which earlier learned material disrupts the learning of subsequent material which occurs when the interfering material occurs before, rather than after, learning of the to-be-remembered material

Proactive needs refer to needs that arise spontaneously.

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Proactivity is when people choose new behaviors to meet new desires or needs and exert control over their lives

Proarrest Policies are policies governing the arrest of violent offenders

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Probability refers to the odds or likelihood that an event will happen or occur. It is a measure a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur, for example will be "what is the probability of rain?" etc. Probability is likewise, the measurement of a degree of uncertainty, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

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