| 1. | Change agent | A term that is sometimes used by people who try to apply SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY to social situations. It refers to someone whose task is to stimulate social change in what is considered a More… 0.4 KB |
| 2. | Character armour | A concept, suggested by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, that to protect the ego an individual can put up a powerful front which dominates their whole personality. For example, disguising More… 0.4 KB |
| 3. | Character assassination | Character assassination is an intentional attempt, usually by a narcissist and/or an enabler, to influence the portrayal or reputation of someone in such a way as to cause others to develop More… 0.5 KB |
| 4. | Character disorder | 1- A personality disorder manifested by a chronic, habitual, maladaptive pattern of reaction that is relatively inflexible, limits the optimal use of potentialities, and often provokes the More… 0.4 KB |
| 5. | Charisma | From the Greek word for "gift" and used originally for the "gift of divine grace". An elusive quality of Personality often defined as "personal magnetism", More… 0.3 KB |
| 6. | Charles Hubbard Judd | Charles Hubbard Judd (Feb 20, 1873 - July 18, 1946) an American educational psychologist who played an influential role in the formation of the discipline. Part of the larger scientific More… 0.7 KB |
| 7. | Charles Laughlin | Charles D. Laughlin, Jr. is celeb primarily for having co-founded a school of neuroanthropological theory called Biogenetic Structuralism. Laughlin is an emeritus professor of anthropology More… 2.7 KB |
| 8. | Charles Sanders Peirce | Charles Sanders Peirce (Sep 10, 1839 in in Cambridge, Massachusetts – Apr 19, 1914) was an American logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, Peirce was educated as a chemist and More… 1.1 KB |
| 9. | Child Development | physical, intellectual, social, and emotional changes that occur from birth to adolescence. Although people change throughout their lives, developmental changes are especially dramatic in More… 3.0 KB |
| 10. | Child Rearing | The training or bringing-up of children by parents or parent-substitutes. It is used also for child rearing practices in different societies, at different economic levels, in different More… 0.5 KB |
| 11. | Child analysis | Application of modified psychoanalytic methods (see psychoanalysis) and goals to problems of children to remove impediments to normal personality development. |
| 12. | Child and adolescent psychiatry | The diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in persons under the age of 18. |
| 13. | Childhood amnesia | Childhood amnesia is the common inability of adults to remember the earliest years of their childhood. Infantile, or childhood amnesia is characterized by the relative absence of memory More… 2.7 KB |
| 14. | Childhood disintegrative disorder | Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), also known as Heller's syndrome and disintegrative psychosis, is a rare condition characterized by late onset (>3 years of age) of More… 2.1 KB |
| 15. | Childhood schizophrenia | A profound psychotic disorder characterized by onset after age 5 and often manifested by bizarre social and emotional behavior, nonsensical language, perceptual distortions, and peculiar More… 0.2 KB |
| 16. | Chlorpromazine | 1- Phenothiazine drug used to treat schizophrenia that blocks certain dopamine receptors in the brain, thereby calming agitation and reducing positive symptoms of schizophrenia. 2- The More… 0.3 KB |
| 17. | Choice supportive bias | In cognitive science, choice-supportive bias is a tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected. For example, researchers have used written scenarios in More… 1.2 KB |
| 18. | Choreiform | Pertaining to the involuntary, spasmodic, jerking movements of the limbs and head found in Huntington’s chorea and other nervous disorders. |
| 19. | Christian humanism | Christian Humanism is the belief that human freedom and individualism are intrinsic (natural) parts of, or are at least compatible with, Christian doctrine and practice. It is a More… 1.3 KB |
| 20. | Christian von Ehrenfels | (Jun 2, 1859 in Rodaun near Vienna - Sep 8, 1932 in Lichtenau); An Austrian philosopher, and is known as one of the founders and precursors of Gestalt psychology. Although Max Wertheimer is More… 1.4 KB |
| 21. | Chromosome 21 | The chromosome involved in Down syndrome (21 trisomy), which is most frequently due to nondisjunction of chromosome 21, resulting in 3, rather than 2 chromosomes (and making the total 47 More… 0.6 KB |
| 22. | Chromosomes | Microscopic, intranuclear structures that carry the genes. The normal human cell contains 46 chromosomes, consisting of 23 pairs of chromosomes, 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex More… 0.2 KB |
| 23. | Chronic | Continuing over a long period of time or recurring frequently. Chronic conditions often begin inconspicuously, and symptoms may be less pronounced than in acute conditions. |
| 24. | Chronic schizophrenic | A psychotic patient who deteriorated over a long period of time and has been hospitalized for more than two years. |
| 25. | Chronobiology | The science or study of temporal factors in life stages and disorders, such as the sleep-wake cycle, biological clocks and rhythms, and so forth. |
