Glossary P

Deutsch: Vorrangigkeit / Español: Prepotencia / Português: Prepotência / Français: Prépondérance / Italiano: Prepotenza

Prepotency in the psychology context refers to the relative strength or dominance of certain needs, motives, or responses over others. It describes how some psychological drives or stimuli take precedence over others, influencing behaviour in a hierarchical manner. In other words, prepotency indicates that certain needs or impulses are more urgent or powerful, compelling an individual to act on them first.

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Prepotent response is the response that has been "primed" to occur through reinforcement, repeated use, habit, or reflex.

Presbycusis refers to a form of sensorineural hearing loss that occurs as a function of age and is often associated with a decrease in the ability to hear high frequencies. Moreover, Presbycusis is the reduced sensitivity to high-pitched tones; a normative age-related loss of the ability to hear high-pitched tones. Presbycusis is also called Sociocusis since this loss also appears to be related to exposure to environmental sounds

Presbyopia is defined as farsightedness caused by aging. Presbyopia is the inability of the eye to accommodate due to a hardening of the lens and a weakening of the ciliary muscles that occurs as people get older. Presbyopia, moreover is defined as the normative age-related loss of the ability to focus on nearby objects or difficulty in seeing close objects clearly, often resulting in the need for glasses.

Prescriptive models of thinking are models that tell people how they "ought" to make decisions or solve problems taking into account actual circumstances.

Prescriptive norm refers to a consensual standard that identifies preferable, positively sanctioned behaviors.

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Prescriptive rules refer to the rules of grammar that define how language should be used, as taught in writing classes and specified in style manuals. The rules that prohibit splitting infinitives and ending sentences with prepositions is an example of Prescriptive rules.

Present Self refers to early self-representation in which 2- and 3-year-old children recognize current representations of self but are largely unaware that past self-representations or self-relevant events have implications for the future