CATATONIC EXCITEMENT
n. a highly-agitated state in which a patient exhibits extreme restlessness to the point of exhaustion. This results in repetitive…
CONCEPT FORMATION
the procedure by which someone abstracts a customary concept from certain examples. Commonly referred to as concept acquisition.
CONCURRENCE SEEKING
attempting to abstain from disputes and conundrums, especially within conversations or while making decisions.
CONFIDENTIALITY
noun. A standard of professional values necessitating suppliers of mental or medical healthcare to constrain the revealing of a person's…
CONJUNCTION
noun. With regard to language, an operative term whose purpose is to fuse at least two sentence components or entire…
CONSISTENCY THEORY
introduced by American psychologist Fritz Heider, a category of social psychological theory postulating that individuals are primarily driven by a…
CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY
the department of psychology concerned with people's behavior as customers and with the methods of communicating data to impact customer…
CONTINGENCY AWARENESS
1. consciousness of a union or relation between two different events. 2. consciousness of the reliance of one event on…
COOPERATION
noun. The procedure wherein working as a team in pursuit of an objective occurs. With regard to game theory, is…
CORTICAL LESION
a diseased alteration in the portion of the brain known as the cerebral cortex, that might be genetic or gained…
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
noun. The therapy professional's unaware responses to the client and to the client's transference. These ideas and emotions are based…
CRITERION VALIDITY
a record of how well an exam relates to data set upon which others can be compared. This data set…
CUED RECALL
an experimental memory process wherein an object that is to be recalled is displayed for examination in addition to a…
ACCENTUATION THEORY
Henri Tajfel's concept that points out a tendency to over-emphasize the differences between things belonging to different categories, and likewise,…
ACTION READINESS
a condition of readiness for action that is induced as a component of an emotional reaction and connected with such…