Glossary P

Glossary P

Parahippocampal gyrus refers to the structure of the limbic system.

Parahippocampal place area (PPA) refers to an area in the temporal lobe that is activated by pictures of indoor and outdoor scenes.

Paralanguage refers to all vocal cues other than the content of the verbal message itself.

Paralinguistics is concerned with factors of how words are spoken, that is, the volume, the intonation, the speed and many others.. In intercultural communication, Paralinguistic differences can be responsible for , mostly subconscious or stereotyped, confusion.

- Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models : Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models is the handling of very large numbers of cognitive operations at once through a network distributed across incalculable numbers of locations in the brain

Parallel fibers are axons that run parallel to one another but perpendicular to the planes of the Purkinje cells in the cerebellum

Parallel forms refer to two (2) alternative forms of a test

Parallel forms reliability refers to the method of reliability assessment used to evaluate the error associated with the use of a particular set of items. Equivalent forms of a test are developed by generating two (2) forms using the same rules. The correlation between the two (2) forms is the estimate of Parallel forms reliability.