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…
COUNTERATTITUDINAL ROLE PLAY
a method utilized in psychodrama or character play wherein the people participating are guided to show opinions that do not…
COUPLED OSCILLATORS
a flexible system design utilized in the representation of many facets of rhythm-based motions.
COVERT ATTENTION
interest aimed at an area which is not like that which the person's sight is focused upon.
CRANIOLOGY
noun. 1. the empirical examination of the shape, length, girth, and various other traits of the human cranium. 2. reference:…
CREATIVE SYNTHESIS
the mixture of many concepts, visuals, or correlations into a new whole, particularly whenever this varies fundamentally from any of…
CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY
a formative positivist way of thinking about criminology correlated with the many theories posed by Italian criminology expert Cesare Lombrosos,…
CRITERIA OF THE PSYCHIC
a postulated group of signs that would permit someone to be assured in determining that a living being retains awareness,…
CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS (CPA), CRITICAL PERIOD
1. a formative phase in life wherein a living being is particularly open to certain acquisition-based, emotion-based, or social encounters…
CROSS SECTION
a laceration through any field of an item or organ for the purpose of analyzing it.
CROSSED REFLEX
a reaction that happens on the contrary side of one's body from the area that is aroused.
CROSS-SITUATIONAL CONSISTENCY
the magnitude to which a psychological trait is expressed in the exact same, or in an operationally equal, way in…
CRYSTALLIZED ABILITIES
those capacities, like societal insight and language, which are an operation of experience and learning wherein a certain culture.
CUE-DEPENDENT FORGETTING
an inability to remember stemming from the loss of a stimulant at testing which was displayed when the acquisition happened.
CULTURAL LEARNING
American psychologist Michael Tomasello, the conveying of gained data and actions both within and among generations possessing a high magnitude…
CULTURALLY LOADED ITEMS
exam queries that can't be accurate answered unless partakers are adequately familiar with their cultural or subcultural connotations. These objects…
CUMULATIVE CONTINUITY
the procedure wherein a person's behaviors generate outcomes which build up in time and help them to progress across life…