CARPAL AGE
n. a person's anatomical age as can be estimated from the carpal (wrist) bones based on their degree of ossification.…
CASE HISTORY
n. a complete record of information containing all data about a patient's medical or psychological condition. It may cover health,…
CASTRATION COMPLEX
n, in psychoanalytic theory, refers to the collective feelings and fantasies associated with the child deprived of the phallus. Boys…
CATECHOLAMINE HYPOTHESIS
n. a hypothesis which suggests that a deficiency in catecholamines, such as neurotransmitters in the brain, could cause a chemical…
CAUSAL INFERENCE
n. in psychology, refers to a manner of reasoning which permits an individual to see causal relationships in events and…
CAUTIOUS SHIFT
n. a shift in both choice and approach when making decisions as a group. People who make a decision as…
CELL THEORY
n. in biology, refers to the scientific study which proposes that cells are the basic unit of structure making up…
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES
(CMS) a U.S. federal agency under the Health and Human Services department. It is primarily tasked with administering the Medicare…
COMPUTATIONAL MODEL
any report of mental or psychobiological procedures which presume that a person's mind operates like a digital computer, particularly in…
COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (CAI)
an advanced outgrowth of automatic learning wherein the memory reserve and recollection capacities of the computer are employed to render…
CONCENTRATIVE MEDITATION
a kind of meditation that concentrates on a sole stimulant- a certain visual- a certain noise, mantra, term, etc.- a…
CONCRETE OPERATION
the capacity of a developing youth to cognitively stand for object in the tangible world and to comprehend the reasonably…
CONDITION 1
a reasonable forerunner wherein a verdict is reliant upon or a scientific forerunner wherein an occurrence or condition is reliant…
CONDITIONED REINFORCER
an unbiased stimulant that obtains the capacity to behave as a reinforcing party, generally by being accompanied with a main…
CONFABULATION
noun. The misrepresentation of memory wherein holes in recollection are filled in by manufactured tellings that the person believes to…