CRITERION VALIDITY
a record of how well an exam relates to data set upon which others can be compared. This data set…
CRITICAL-INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING (CISD)
founded by American psychologist Jeffrey T. Mitchell, a step-by-step and structured procedure modeled to assist people who have viewed or…
CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH
with regard to the social sciences, a research technique wherein certain social traditions are examined and compared to various other…
CROWD CONSCIOUSNESS
founded by French psychologist Gustace le Bon, the comparison of the group mind.
CRYPTOGRAM
noun. A kind of issue occasionally utilized in studies of resolving problems, wherein a brief joke or quote is encrypted…
CULTURAL CONSERVE
founded by American psychiatrist Jacob L. Moreno, anything which has the impact of retaining precious cultural memories.
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY
consciousness and understanding of the morals, standards, and principles of a specific culture, society, ethnic group or race, joined by…
CULTURE PATTERN, CULTURE CONFLICT
1. stress or rivalry between different cultures. 2. the differing loyalties felt by people who support the cultural objectives of…
CUMULATIVE SCALE
initially postulated by American experimental psychologist Louis Guttman, an outlook scale comprised of many oral proclamations corresponding to an outlook…
CURVILINEAR CORRELATION
an operational union between variables which isn't in the form of a straight line on a graph.
CYCLOTHYMIC DISORDER
in the DSM-IV-TR, a mood disorder marked by times of hypomanic indicators and times of depressive ones which happen over…
CALIFORNIA ACHIEVEMENT TESTS (CAT)
n. a battery of multiple-choice tests designed to assess basic skills among students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. At 13…
CAMPBELL, DONALD THOMAS
(1916-1996) U.S. psychologist with a PhD in social psychology from University of California in Berkeley. He introduced standard concepts in…
CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS, CANNABIS INTOXICATION
n. a transient phenomenon which occurs while smoking or after ingesting cannabis. Clinically, it consists of feelings of enhanced well-being,…
CARCINOGEN
n. any cancer-causing substance which a person ingests or comes in contact with, directly. Also, any cancer-initiating agent which someone…