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…
CANAJLIZATION
A tendency to channel needs into specific, fixed gratifications.The hunger drive is unselective in the first few years. Young children…
Collectivist and Individualist Cultures
Collectivist cultures tend to use an authoritarian parenting style to instill cultural values or beliefs in the children. On the…
CONTRAST-SENSITIVITY FUNCTION (CSF)
a visual rendering of contrast sensitivity as an execution of spatial frequency.
CONTROLLED ORAL WORD ASSOCIATION (COWA)
formed by American neuropsychologist Arthur Lester Benton, an examination that necessitates its volunteers cite all terms they are capable of…
CONVERGENT THINKING
the kind of critical thinking wherein a person examines a quantity of previously developed resolutions in effort to resolve an…
COOPERATIVE MOTIVE
the ambition or temperamental propensity to react in an adjoined manner in sociocultural and behavioral environments by assisting other people…
COPING STYLE
the typical way in which someone faces or copes with taxing agents, stimulants of worry or anxiousness, or emergent situations.
CORPUS SPONGIOSUM
a Colum of tissue on the lower region of the penile body that encompasses the urethra. Anterior to it are…
CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
a numerical database exhibiting the magnitude of the union between two traits scaled down so that the degree of +1…
CORTICAL COLUMN
one of the vertical sets of intertwined neurons that range across many cortical membranes and make up the fundamental operational…
CORTICAL-AROUSAL FACTOR
postulated by Canadian psychologist Daniel R Berlyne, a part of an art piece that is associated with elevated ratings on…
COUNSELING PROCESS
the private procedure therapists and patients participate in when trying to identify, confront, and solve certain issues the patient has…
COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR
the actions of people and various animal species in differing culture or social strata within the duration of the time…
COVERT ORIENTING
the shifting of attentional focus independently of the direction of the stare. Covert orienting can be demonstrated by refined recognition…