CEILING AGE
n. the age level at which a child is unable to answer a standardized test correctly. It is the maximum…
CENESTHOPATHY
n. a general feeling of ill health which has not been pinpointed to a particular organ or region of the…
CARC-AND-PROTECTION PROCEEDINGS
Intervention by a court on a child's behalf to provide it with adequate care.
COMPUTER ANXIETY
powerful hesitation about computers and the use of them that is incommensurate to the literal danger presented by such appliances.…
COMPUTER-MANAGED INSTRUCTION
a strategy for directions wherein a computer is employed to help the teacher in implementing a method of individualized direction.…
CONCEPTION RATIO
1. with regard to human ecology, the ratio of men to women conceptualized, being around 150:100. Male embryos are far…
CONCILIATION
the activity or procedure of accommodating the standpoints of people or groups with appeals and objectives that differe, at least…
CONCRETISM
noun. 1. with regard to Jung's analytic psychology, a kind of thought or emotion which is reliant upon instant tangible…
CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY
the likelihood that an occurrence will take place given that another occurrence is already understood as having happened.
CONDITIONING OF ATTITUDES
the building or modification of a state of mind as an outcome of the correlation of an attitude object with…
CONFIDENTIALITY
noun. A standard of professional values necessitating suppliers of mental or medical healthcare to constrain the revealing of a person's…
CONFLICT THEORY
1. any abstract examination of the prompts and effects of interpersonal discord. 2. more narrowly, a sociological way that emphasizes…
CONGENITAL CATARACT
opaqueness of the lens of the eye ball which is existent at birth or takes place shortly following birth. Its…
CONJOINED TWINS
monozygotic twins whose bodies do not part fully while inutero thereby resulting in two bodies joined together that might be…
CONRADI'S DISEASE
introduced by German Dr. Erich Conradi, a hereditary illness categorized by small appendages, irregularities of the face and head, dry…
CONSENSUAL EYE REFLEX
a sensation wherein the pupil of a shaded eye ball shrinks and expanded when the other eye ball is prompted…
CONSILIENCE
introduced by American biologist Edward O. Wilson, the stance wherein the rules of biological evolution and the laws of physics…
CONSTANCY PRINCIPLE
the standard doctrine that psychic powers and drives are likely to stay in a persistent or stable state or likely…
CONSTRUCTIVIST PSYCHOTHERAPY
1. posed by American clinical psychologist George Kelly, a kind of individual therapy, stemming from constructivism, wherein concentration is on…