CONSENSUAL VALIDATION
the procedure wherein a professional assists a patient in verifying the correctness of their interpretation or the outcomes of their…
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…
ABC THEORY
a theory based on the RET approach developed in 1955 by Albert Ellis, proposing that Activating events are not the…
A PRIORI TEST
the testing of an experiment's hypotheses prior to the actual performance of said experiment.
A-B DESIGN
a setup for experiments requiring the measurement of the dependent variable prior to onset of the experiment and again after…