CANAJLIZATION
A tendency to channel needs into specific, fixed gratifications.The hunger drive is unselective in the first few years. Young children…
CANNON, WALTER BRADFORD (1871-1945)
Cannon, America’s foremost physiologist, was associated with the Harvard Medical School during his entire career—first as student, then as instructor…
CATTELL, JAMES iMcKEEN (1860- 1944)
Cattell did more than any psychologist of his time to advance the cause of experimental psychology in this country. He…
Collectivist and Individualist Cultures
Collectivist cultures tend to use an authoritarian parenting style to instill cultural values or beliefs in the children. On the…
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…
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
n. a major organ-system which includes the heart, the blood vessels, and the entire circulatory system of the body. It…
CARISOPRODOL
n. a drug belonging to the class of propanediols. First introduced as an anxiolytic drug, it has now been developed…
CARUS TYPOLOGY
n. a classification of human body constitution into five types, namely: 1) the cerebral type, 2) the athletic type, 3)…
CASPAR HAUSER EXPERIMENT
n. any experimental procedure in which an animal is held captive, deprived of its natural surroundings, and exposed to very…
CATCH TRIAL
n. the design of a clinical trial in which part of the experiment would be to include blank items as…
CATEGORIZED LIST
n. a controlled list of items that is used in tests and experiments on memory. The list prompts a free…
CAUSATIVE VERB
n. a verb form which expresses a causal relationship between the subject and the object of a sentence. For example,…
CELL ASSEMBLY
n. In Hebbian theory, refers to a group of neurons organized as a single, functional unit. Through synaptic plasticity, the…