CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING
the capacity to resolve problems in daily life with little stress resulting.
CONSUMER EMPOWERMENT
a tradition wherein the end-users of professional services advance their employment of professional service preference and their impact on when,…
CONTAINMENT
noun. with regard to objects relation theory, the idea that either the maternal party or the examiner facilitates development and…
CONTINGENCY REINFORCEMENT
with regard to behavior therapy, a method wherein strengthening, or advantage is rendered every time the wanted behavior is carried…
CONTINUITY-CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
an institution that provides a variation of services and living situations for elderly persons to make use of whenever they…
CONTRACTILITY
noun. the ability of living tissues, especially muscles, to shrink and expand as a reaction to a stimulant.
CONTRAST ERROR
a kind of rating error wherein the analysis of an objective individual in a set of people is impacted by…
CONTROL ANALYSIS
psychoanalytical remediation executed by a student with the coaching of a skilled psychoanalyst, who assists the student in determining the…
CONVENIENCE SHOPPER
a customer who is directs their interest toward the accessibility of an item versus its pricetag.
CONVERSION ANESTHESIA
a sensorial conversion indicator characterized by a lack of feeling in particular regions of the body that can't be blamed…
COOLIDGE ASSESSMENT BATTERY (CAB)
a tool utilized in gauging one's own Axis II personality disorders, in addition to 5 major clinical Axis I disorders.…
COORDINATION OF SECONDARY CIRCULAR REACTIONS
with regard to Jean Piaget's theory, the 4th sublevel of sensorimotor development, wherein newborns and babies retain the capacity to…
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
tangible chastisement, such that employs physical power that inflicts pain, but not harm, in effort to remedy or manage someone's…
CORRECTIVE ADVERTISING
promotion tactics mandated for organizations deemed to be guilt of deceitful or misleading marketing by the FTC.
CORTICAL LESION
a diseased alteration in the portion of the brain known as the cerebral cortex, that might be genetic or gained…
CORTICOSPINAL TRACT
a significant motor tract that begins in the cerebral cortex, continues through the pyramid of the medulla oblongata, and lowers…
COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
1. an evaluative process which tries to judge and compare the economic adequacy of varying programs. Prices and advantages are…