peripheralism

[ puh-rif-er-uh-liz-uh m ]
/ pəˈrɪf ər əˌlɪz əm /

noun Psychology.

the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.

Origin of peripheralism

peripheral + -ism

Words nearby peripheralism

peripheral nervous system, peripheral ossifying fibroma, peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour, peripheral scotoma, peripheral vision, peripheralism, peripheric, periphery, periphlebitis, periphrasis, periphrastic