Glossary P

Glossary P

Prohibition may be defined as a legislative forbidding of the sale of a substance, as in the alcohol Prohibition era in the United States, 1920–1933

Prohibitive moral judgment refers to a judgment that involves a conflict between violating a law and breaking a promise in order to achieve some other goal.

Project teams refer to groups formed to produce one-time outputs, such as developing a new product, creating a new software system, or hiring a new employee.

Projection refers to a defence mechanism in which one’s unacceptable behaviors or thoughts are attributed to someone else. Projection is when a person is emotionally triggered by someone else’s behavior and is judging them, he/she is are "Projecting" the very quality he/she is judging, on the other person.

Projection fibers are neurons that connect sets of brain structures to each other, example is Subcortical structures to the cortex and vice versa.

Projective hypothesis refers to the proposal that when a person attempts to understand an ambiguous or vague stimulus, his or her interpretation reflects needs, feelings, experiences, prior conditioning, thought processes, and so on

Projective personality tests refer to tests in which the stimulus or the required response or both are ambiguous.

Projective techniques is defined as Psychological testing techniques that use people's responses to ambiguous test stimuli to make judgments about their adjustment - maladjustment. Proponents of Projective techniques believe that examinees "project" themselves into the stimuli, hence revealing unconscious aspects of themselves. Psychological testing techniques, such as the Rorschach or the Thematic Apperception Test, use people's responses to ambiguous test stimuli to make judgments about their personality traits or their psychological state.