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…
CORIOLIS EFFECTS
introduced by French physicist Gaspard de Coriolis, the propensity for any mobile organism on or above the surface of the…
CORPUS LUTEUM
a yellow-toned glandular growth in the ovary that exists following a graftian follicle explosion and subsequent release of an egg.…
CORTICAL CENTER
1. a region of the cerebral cortex wherein motor fibers begin or sensory fibers end. 2. a region of the…
CORTICAL UNDERCUTTING
a kind of prefrontal lobotomy once utilized to manage serious emotional and cognitive illness or ailment wherein the skull was…
COUNSELING
professional help in handling and processes private problems, such as behavior-related, job-related, marriage, school, rehabilitative, school-based, life-stage, and emotionally rooted…
COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING
1. pretend methods wherein happenings in someone's life may have ended up a different way. Emotions of regretfulness or dismay…
COURT-ORDERED TREATMENT
any analysis, remedy, consultation, or other service for accused individuals, claimants of a crime, or those who have committed such…
COVERT NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
with regard to behaviors therapy, an approach wherein the patient initially visualizes an negative occurrence so because of this changes…
CRANIAL BIFIDA
a hereditary disorder formed by an impression in the center of the forehead in the shape or a horseshoe.
CREMASTER MUSCLE,
that which inflicts retraction of the testicles toward the abdominal area, stemming from cold temperatures or the caressing of the…
CRIMINOLOGY
the empiric examination of crime and unlawful behavior, as well as its causes, inhibition, and reprimands.
CRITERION GROUP
a group examined for characteristics that others belonging to the group are already recognized as having, generally with the intent…
CRITICAL VALUE
the value of either one of the ends of a critical region, that being, either one of the values beyond…