Conscience development
Psychologists recognize that many factors contribute to the development of conscience: parents and home life, playmates and schoolmates, teachers, neighborhood,…
CHARCOT, JEAN-MARTIN (1825- 93)
Charcot, regarded as the founder of clinical neurology, was born in Paris and received his medical degree from that city’s…
CHEMOTHERAPY
The use of psychoactive (psychotropic) drugs in the treatment of mental disorder. Chemotherapy is a branch of the larger field…
Collectivist and Individualist Cultures
Collectivist cultures tend to use an authoritarian parenting style to instill cultural values or beliefs in the children. On the…
CRITICAL THINKING
a type of structured, problem-oriented thought wherein the person challenges concepts or plausible resolutions for mistakes or setbacks.
CROSS-CONDITIONING
noun. Conditioning to an unbiased stimulant whenever it coincidentally happens at the same time as an unconditioned one.
CROUZON'S SYNDROME
explained by French neurologist Octave Crouzon, a state wherein a wise cranium with a bulge close to the anterior fontanel…
CRYPTARITHMETIC
noun. A kind of issue occasionally utilized in studies of resolving problems, wherein the numbers in a math problem are…
CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
an all-encompassing branch of basic psychology regarding those with psychological methods which are innately arranged by culture.
CULTURE COMPLEX
a unique trend of behaviors, concepts, customs, or rituals corresponding to one core aspect of life in a specific culture.
CUMULATIVE RECORD
an ongoing document wherein new information is attributed. With regard to conditioning, a collective document is a graph demonstrating the…
CURRICULUM-BASED ASSESSMENT
1. a total, widespread analysis profile that divulges the level of pupil mastery of a chosen subject matter, class review…
CYCLOPHORIA
an inequality of the extrinsic eye muscles wherein one eye ball veers away whenever it is not centered on an…
CACHINNATION
n. a term used to describe loud, unrestrained laughter to the point of being convulsive and hysterical. An abnomal type…
CALCIUM-DEFICIENCY DISORDERS
n. diseases caused by deficient levels of calcium available to tissues. With the help of vitamin D, calcium is absorbed…