CONSTRUCT VALIDITY
the magnitude to which an analysis or tool is able to gauge an abstract characteristic, capacity, or construct.
CONTENT-THOUGHT DISORDER
a kind of cognitive disruption, usually seen in schizophrenic disorder and a few other cognitive disorders, marked by several, disconnected,…
CONTRALATERAL CONTROL
the setup wherein the motor cortex of both cerebral hemispheres are primarily accountable for handling of motions of the opposite…
CONVERGENT PRODUCTION
the ability to generate the correct response to a query or to pick from a number of choices, the most…
CORRECTIVE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
an idea stemming from psychoanalysis which postulates that patients acquire significant and intensive modification via new interpersonal affective events they…
COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
1. an evaluative process which tries to judge and compare the economic adequacy of varying programs. Prices and advantages are…
CREATIVE IMAGINATION
the method wherein unique concepts are generated, particularly whenever this doesn't appear to be accountable merely by the blending of…
CROSS-GENDER BEHAVIOR
the procedure or trend of presuming the part of the opposite gender by way of taking on their appearance thru…
CULTURAL GENOCIDE
deteriorating toward a culture's history, morals, and traditions, typically by some other, superior culturally-based group of people.
DECAY THEORY
The theory that states unless we keep using something we have remembered it will eventually go away. Also called trace-decay…
ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION
in regards to cognitive theory, a reasonable way of thinking about an agent in an abstract way that is not…
ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION
Henry Alexander Murray's proposal of the desire to conquer hurdles in addition to mastering challenging troubles. Those with higher scores…
ACTIVE LISTENING
a psychotherapeutic approach that occurs when the professional listens to a patient meticulously and diligently, inquiring as required, in an…
ADDITIVE EFFECT
with regard to statistics, the impact that the combined influence of two features is the summarization of their individual impacts,…
AGGREGATION
noun. 1. a group of living bodies in an area with no noticeable societal construction or organization, retaining the smallest…
ALPHA FEMALE
the top-notch or predominant woman in an organization, who is within reach of commodities, such as edibles and friends.
AMELIORATION
noun. a positive development concerning the seriousness of an illness or syndrome, or a lessening of the severity of its…
ANALYTICAL INTELLIGENCE
in the classical principle of intelligence, the attributes and general knowledge of a person as gauged by traditional assessments of…