CAUDATE NUCLEUS
n. an area of nuclei found in the basal ganglia of the brain. It is an elongated and curved mass…
CAUSAL AMBIGUITY
n. a scenario in which there are at least two kinds of phenomena operating in the same situation, and it…
CAUSAL ANALYSIS
n. a method of searching for the cause or causes of certain effects. Because the causal factor needs to be…
CAUSAL CHAIN
A hypothetical or actual sequence of events which lead to a particular effect. The chain of events must be ordered…
CAUSAL INFERENCE
n. in psychology, refers to a manner of reasoning which permits an individual to see causal relationships in events and…
CAUSAL LATENCY
n. a phenomenon in which there may be a lengthy interval (i.e. a period of dormancy) between the actual cause…
CAUSAL LAW
n. A condition of consistent and invariant relationship between phenomena such that the Law of Cause and Effect applies. Here,…
CAUSAL MECHANISM
n. the physical, if not the most immediate, means of bringing about the desired effect. For instance, other than using…
CAUSAL NEXUS
n. an established link between the most probable cause and its resulting effects. It relies on a connection (nexus) between…
CAUSAL ORDERING
n. the basic principle which says that, temporally, causes must precede their effects. It follows that effects come after causes,…
CAUSAL PATH
n. a relatively-probable to highly-probable causal sequence derived from a complex array of potential causes and effects. Statistical analysis is…
CAUSAL TEXTURE
n. the concept that there is a multitude of many different yet mutually-dependent events which exist in natural phenomena. Psychologists…
CAUSATIVE VERB
n. a verb form which expresses a causal relationship between the subject and the object of a sentence. For example,…
CAUSE-AND-EFFECT DIAGRAM
n. in management and economics, refers to an analytical tool which graphically illustrates the flow of cause and effect. Also…
CAUSE-AND-EFFECT TEST
n. a variety of intelligence tests that measure a participant's logical and causal reasoning. The test presents alternative causes for…