CONFIGURAL LEARNING
training to react to a mixture of at least two stimulants matched with a result when none of the stimulants…
CONFLICT-FREE SPHERE
with regard to ego psychology, a region of the ego that grows and operates without producing interior discord. Commonly referred…
CONGENITAL CATARACT
opaqueness of the lens of the eye ball which is existent at birth or takes place shortly following birth. Its…
CONJOINED TWINS
monozygotic twins whose bodies do not part fully while inutero thereby resulting in two bodies joined together that might be…
CONRADI'S DISEASE
introduced by German Dr. Erich Conradi, a hereditary illness categorized by small appendages, irregularities of the face and head, dry…
CONSENSUAL EYE REFLEX
a sensation wherein the pupil of a shaded eye ball shrinks and expanded when the other eye ball is prompted…
CONSILIENCE
introduced by American biologist Edward O. Wilson, the stance wherein the rules of biological evolution and the laws of physics…
CONSTANCY PRINCIPLE
the standard doctrine that psychic powers and drives are likely to stay in a persistent or stable state or likely…
CONSTRUCTIVIST PSYCHOTHERAPY
1. posed by American clinical psychologist George Kelly, a kind of individual therapy, stemming from constructivism, wherein concentration is on…
CONSUMERISM
noun. a movement to safeguard the liberties of the customer with respect to the quality and threat of hazard of…
CONTEXTUAL ASSOCIATIONS
correlations learned between objects or materials that a living being is exposed to, and the framework wherein exposure happens.
CONTINGENT EMPLOYEE
a worker which is employed on a short-term basis to work on certain jobs.
CONTINUOUS PANEL
a type of customer panel wherein participants engage on a fairly long-lasting basis so consumer psychologists can pick up on…
CONTRALATERAL CONTROL
the setup wherein the motor cortex of both cerebral hemispheres are primarily accountable for handling of motions of the opposite…
CONTRAST WEIGHT
the importance given to each group of observations or information acquired from a specific trial and error circumstance in an…
CONTROL QUESTION TEST (CQT)
a method utilized in polygraph examinations, usually for criminal research and investigation. Both queries concerning the specific crime and typical…
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
the propensity of living beings not related to one another in a certain setting to progress superficial bodily constructions that…
CONVERSION THERAPY
a highly dubious and typically unapproved form of therapy based upon the assumption that homosexuals might come to be heterosexual.