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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…

CRYO-

combining form: frigid or cold.

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…

CURATIVE FACTORS MODEL

postulated by American psychologist Irwin Yalom, a design which attempts to discover those factors existing in therapy-based groups that help…

CUTANEOUS PERCEPTION

understanding of stimulants through arousal of skin receptors.

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE

a compound, like cyclic gmp, which operates as a second transmitter in cell to convey and incoming alert, like a…

CYTOKINE

any of various minute peptides or proteins which are dispersed by cells as alerts to those or other cells. Each…

C FIBER

n. unmyelinated nerve fibers located in the somatic sensory system. As afferent fibers, they conduct impulses from the periphery of…

CALCITONIN

n. an endocrine hormone produced by the thyroid gland and its parafollicular cells. It participates in the metabolism of both…

CALLOSAL SULCUS

n. a medial sulcus in the brain, forming a fissure between the two cerebral hemispheres. It is located between the…

CANCER

n. a group of pathological conditions characterized by the abnormal growth of cells. Locally, this abnormal mass may develop into…