| 1. | Co-twin control | An experimental procedure in which one IDENTICAL TWIN (the subject) is given a particular treatment while the other (the control) is not. Used in studies (like IQ or INTELLIGENCE) where More… 0.3 KB |
| 2. | Coacting group | Sociological term for people who share the same goal but work towards it without communicating or interacting. |
| 3. | Coactive strategy | The use of more than one drug to achieve a desired response. Combination is the use of two or more drugs with different mechanisms of action, but the same response. Augmentation is the More… 0.3 KB |
| 4. | Cocaine | A naturally occurring stimulant drug found in the leaves of the coca plant, Erythroxylon coca. Its systemic effects include nervous system stimulation, manifested by garrulousness, More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Cocaine use disorders | In DSM-IV, this group includes cocaine dependence, cocaine abuse, cocaine intoxication, cocaine withdrawal, cocaine delirium, cocaine psychotic disorder with delusions or hallucinations, More… 0.3 KB |
| 6. | Cocktail party phenomenon | Term used by some psychologists to describe our Perceptual ability to deal with several messages at once but "attend" to only one of them. |
| 7. | Codependency | A popular term referring to all the effects that people who are dependent on alcohol or other substances have on those around them, including the attempts of those people to affect the More… 0.5 KB |
| 8. | Cognition | The sort of mental processes described as cognitive or cognitive processes are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past. Consequently, this More… 2.1 KB |
| 9. | Cognitive | Refers to the mental processes of comprehension, judgment, memory, and reasoning, in contrast to emotional and volitional processes. Contrast with conative. |
| 10. | Cognitive development | Beginning in infancy, the acquisition of intelligence, conscious thought, and problem-solving abilities. An orderly sequence in the increase in knowledge derived from sensorimotor activity More… 0.3 KB |
| 11. | Cognitive dissonance | is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The "ideas" or "cognitions" in question may include attitudes and beliefs, and also More… 2.0 KB |
| 12. | Cognitive dissonance | cognitive dissonance : A kind of BALANCE THEORY proposed by the American psychologist Leon Festinger; the theory states that because we have a powerful DRIVE towards consistency (or More… 0.7 KB |
| 13. | Cognitive distortion theory | Theory that depression results from errors in thinking, such as jumping to conclusions, exaggerating the negative, and ignoring the positive, that lead one to a gloomy view of the self, the More… 0.2 KB |
| 14. | Cognitive ergonomics | That aspect of Ergonomics which deals withe the interaction between people and the computer-based information technology they work with. |
| 15. | Cognitive labelling theory | A theory of Emotion proposing that all emotional experiences are preceded by a generalised state of physiological arousal which is then "labelled" on the basis of situational cues More… 0.2 KB |
| 16. | Cognitive learning theory | A school of thought in Psychology that opposed the behaviourist view that there is a direct link between stimulus and response via the nervous system, arguing that complex learning involves More… 0.4 KB |
| 17. | Cognitive map | Also known as cognitive models, mental maps, mind maps or mental models are a type of mental processing composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual can More… 2.2 KB |
| 18. | Cognitive model of abnormality | A model of Abnormality that emphasises the role of cognitive factors in mental disorders. The view is that thinking in a maladaptive way leads to disordered behaviour. |
| 19. | Cognitive neuropsychology | An area of research concerned with trying to understand the workings of the cognitive system by studying brain-damaged patients and the kinds of impairment associated with Brain Damage. |
| 20. | Cognitive psychology | Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. The school of thought arising from this approach is More… 1.6 KB |
| 21. | Cognitive restructing | cognitive restructing The technique used by cognitive therapists to make distorted and irrational beliefs more rational. |
| 22. | Cognitive restructuring | Any behavior therapy procedure that attempts to alter the manner in which a client thinks about life so that he or she changes overt behavior and emotions. Also see cognitive therapy. |
| 23. | Cognitive revolution | A phrase used to describe a great upsurge of research, theorising, and applications using a Cognitive Psychology perspective, beginning in the l970s and especially prominent in European More… 0.4 KB |
| 24. | Cognitive science | The term now used for the group of disciplines that study the mind, including Artificial intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cognitive Psychology. |
| 25. | Cognitive slippage | Cognitive slippage is a symptom of several psychiatric diseases and mental disorders associated with cognition and formal thought disorders. It is manifested in patterns of speech, where More… 1.2 KB |
