Glossary P

Parsing refers to the process of assigning words into grammatical categories.

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Deutsch: Partielle Blindheit / Español: Ceguera Parcial / Português: Cegueira Parcial / Français: Cécité Partielle / Italian: Cecità Parziale

Partial blindness in the psychology context refers to a Condition where an individual experiences a significant reduction in Vision, but not complete blindness. This term is often used to describe various levels of visual impairment where the person retains some degree of vision, but their ability to see is severely limited, which can affect their daily functioning and psychological well-being.

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Partial color constancy refers to a type of color constancy that occurs when changing an object’s illumination causes a change in perception of the object’s hue, but less change than would be expected based on the change in the wavelengths of light reaching the eye. Note that in complete color constancy, changing an object’s illumination causes no change in the object’s hue.

Partial correlations where the relationship between two (2) variables is tested while controlling for a third variable or more.

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Deutsch: Teilweise Gegenwichtung / Español: Contrapeso parcial / Português: Contrapeso parcial / Français: Contrebalancement partiel / Italiano: Bilanciamento parziale /

Partial counterbalancing is a way of ordering the presentation of levels of the independent variable to minimize some of the effects of sequential confounding variables.

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Partial hospitalization refers to an approach in which patients receive treatment at a hospital during the day, but return home at night.

Partial pressure is the fractional part of the barometric pressure due to the presence of a single gas, like, PO2, PCO2, and PN2.

Partial reinforcement refers to a pattern in which only a portion of all responses are reinforced.

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