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Prosencephalon

Prosencephalon which is also known as the forebrain, the top-most division of the developing brain.

Prosocial behavior

Deutsch: Prosoziales Verhalten / Español: Comportamiento prosocial / Português: Comportamento pró-social / Français: Comportement prosocial / Italian: Comportamento prosociale

Prosocial behavior refers to any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person. It is a positive, constructive, helpful social behavior; the opposite of antisocial behavior.

Prosocial Behavior refers to voluntary actions intended to benefit or help others. This type of behavior includes a wide range of activities, such as sharing, comforting, rescuing, and helping. In psychology, prosocial behavior is a key area of study as it is fundamental to social cohesion and the functioning of communities and societies.

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Prosocial Behaviour

Deutsch: Prosoziales Verhalten, Español: Comportamiento prosocial, Português: Comportamento pró-social, Français: Comportement prosocial, Italiano: Comportamento prosociale

Prosocial Behaviour refers to voluntary actions intended to benefit another person or society as a whole. This broad category of behavior is defined by its positive social consequences and includes acts such as helping, sharing, donating, cooperating, comforting, and volunteering.

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Prosocial moral judgment

Prosocial moral judgment refers to judgment involving a Conflict between doing something helpful for someone else and meeting one

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Prosocial moral reasoning

Prosocial moral reasoning refers to the thinking that people display when deciding whether to help, share with, or comfort others when these actions could prove costly to themselves

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Prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis

Prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis is the hypothesis that language-learning children find and use clues to syntactic structure of language in the Prosodic characteristics of the speech they hear. Please see also Phonological bootstrapping hypothesis.

Prosodic factors

Prosodic factors are factors such as intonation and stress that are superimposed on speech segments. Prosodic factors is also called Suprasegmentals.

Prosody

Prosody is defined as the intonational and stress pattern and the tempo of an utterance; the intonation contour of speech, including pauses and changes in stress and pitch. Prosody is an aspect of speech that conveys meaning through intonation, tempo, pitch, word stress, fluency, and rhythm. It augments the meaning of spoken language and is important in communicating the emotional content of language.

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