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Permissive parenting refers to a pattern of parenting in which otherwise accepting adults make few demands of their children and rarely attempt to control their behavior. It is a style of Parenting that offers warmth and caring but little parental control over children

Permissive-indulgent refers to a child-rearing style in which parents are not controlling and restrictive but are warm.

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delusion false, persistent belief that one is being pursued by other people

Persecutory delusions in paranoid-type schizophrenia, the affected person holds fixed beliefs that he or she is the target of others’ ill will; these beliefs remain unchanged, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Perservative functional autonomy refers to the level of functional autonomy that relates to low-level and routine behaviors.

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Perseverance effect refers to the tendency for people to make self -evaluations that are consistent with information that has been discredited. Perseverance effect also refers to the finding that people's beliefs about themselves and the social world persist even after the evidence supporting these beliefs is discredited.

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Perseveration is a a characteristic of disorganized speech in which the affected person repeats the same word, phrases, or sentences over and over.

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Perseverative Search is a term in Piaget's Theory that refers to a mistakenly search for an object in the place in which it is previously found rather than the place in which it is currentl

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