CARISOPRODOL
n. a drug belonging to the class of propanediols. First introduced as an anxiolytic drug, it has now been developed…
CARUS TYPOLOGY
n. a classification of human body constitution into five types, namely: 1) the cerebral type, 2) the athletic type, 3)…
CASPAR HAUSER EXPERIMENT
n. any experimental procedure in which an animal is held captive, deprived of its natural surroundings, and exposed to very…
CATCH TRIAL
n. the design of a clinical trial in which part of the experiment would be to include blank items as…
CATEGORIZED LIST
n. a controlled list of items that is used in tests and experiments on memory. The list prompts a free…
CAUSATIVE VERB
n. a verb form which expresses a causal relationship between the subject and the object of a sentence. For example,…
CELL ASSEMBLY
n. In Hebbian theory, refers to a group of neurons organized as a single, functional unit. Through synaptic plasticity, the…
CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE (CES-D)
n. a self-administered screening test which is commonly-used to assess a person's depression quotient. On a 20-item rating scale, this…
CATATONIC EXCITEMCNT
A time of extreme restlessness and excessive and seemingly useless motor activity.This is a symptom of catatonic schizophrenia.
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
the procedure in which coded directives are rendered to a computer in effort to guide its performance in a certain…
CONCEALED MEASUREMENT
a gauged measure reached in a way that the party involved in not aware that a trait is being gauged.
CONCEPTUAL DISORGANIZATION
not relevant, digressive, or confused oral proclamations, often consisting of neologisms and stereotypical words or phrases. Considered one of the…
CONCORDANCE IN TWINS
with regard to twin analyses, the likelihood that a chosen feature or illness in one twin will be demonstrated in…
CONCURRENT SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT
a process in operant conditioning wherein more than one unique support schedules, each correlated with an independent response, are in…
CONDUCTION
noun. With regard to physiology, the communication of arousal in a muscle, nerve, or other tissue.
CONFIRMATION
with regard to purposive behavior, the satisfaction of an anticipation that strengthens the behaviors that facilitated the satisfaction.