| 1. | Conation | A vague term used to denote a general PSYCHOLOGICAL activity variously described as impulse, desire, will and striving. Sometimes used along with AFFECT and COGNITION as a tripartite More… 0.2 KB |
| 2. | Concept formation | A particularly human form of mental ability that seems to be closely associated with the use of language. It involves the BRAIN in abstracting the essential qualities of individual More… 0.3 KB |
| 3. | Concept testing | Concept testing is the process of using quantitative methods and qualitative methods to evaluate consumer response to a product idea prior to the introduction of a product to the market. It More… 1.2 KB |
| 4. | Concrete thinking | Thinking characterized by immediate experience, rather than abstractions. It may occur as a primary, developmental defect, or it may develop secondary to organic brain disease or More… 0.2 KB |
| 5. | Concurrent validity | It's an extent to which a test yields the same results like other measures of the same phenomenon. As applied to psychiatric diagnosis, the extent to which previously undiscovered More… 0.3 KB |
| 6. | Concussion | An impairment of brain function caused by an injury to the head. The speed and degree of recovery depend on severity of the brain injury. Symptoms may include headache, disorientation, More… 0.2 KB |
| 7. | Condensation | (psychoanalyse); the fusion of several latent elements in a dream into a single manifest element. The process is held to be an unconscious one that represents the dream work's attempt More… 0.2 KB |
| 8. | Condictioned escape response | a conditioned response that allows an animal to escape from a noxious or painful stimulus. |
| 9. | Conditional probability | the frequency with which an event is likely to occur as dependent upon the presence of another event. |
| 10. | Conditioned avoidance response | Type of behavior in which a person avoids stimuli that he or she associates with anxiety-provoking symptoms, reducing anxiety, which then becomes a positive reinforcer for continuing More… 0.2 KB |
| 11. | Conditioned emotional response | an emotional reaction that has been associated with a certain stimulus pattern by means of conditioning procedures. |
| 12. | Conditioned inhibition | The suppression of a conditioned response by pairing it with an indifferent stimulus in the absence of reinforcement. Thus, the indifferent stimulus becomes a signal for nonreinforcement and More… 0.2 KB |
| 13. | Conditioned response | 1- the learned responses to an indifferent stimulus that has been attached to it by repeatedly pairing the stimulus with a reinforcer. Thus, Ivan Pavlov, the discoverer of conditioning, More… 0.5 KB |
| 14. | Conditioned stimulus | the neutral or indifferent stimulus that throught conditioning becomes effective in eliciting the conditioned response. |
| 15. | Conditioned suppression | the utilization of an aversive or painful stimulus inconjunction with a neutral stimulus in a series of conditioning trials, with the result that the subject will show a decrease in the More… 0.3 KB |
| 16. | Conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders | There are many conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders, such as fragile X syndrome and epilepsy. In medicine and in psychiatry, comorbidity describes the effect of other diseases an More… 1.3 KB |
| 17. | Conduct disorder | A disruptive behavior disorder of childhood characterized by repetitive and persistent violation of the rights of others or of age-appropriate social norms or rules. Symptoms may include More… 0.6 KB |
| 18. | Conduct disorders in children | A patterns of extreme disobedience in youngsters, including theft, vandalism, lying, and early drug use; may be precursors of antisocial personality disorder. |
| 19. | Conduction aphasia | In this condition, patients can understand speech and speak fluently and meaningfully, but cannot repeat nonwords or unfamiliar words : produced by damage to the Arcuate Fasciculus. |
| 20. | Confabulation | Confabulation also called false memory is the confusion of imagination with memory, and-or the confusion of true memories with false memories. Confabulation can result from both organic and More… 5.6 KB |
| 21. | Confirmation bias | In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and to avoid information and More… 1.6 KB |
| 22. | Confirmation holism | Confirmation holism, also called epistemological holism is the claim that a single scientific theory cannot be tested in isolation; a test of one theory always depends on other theories and More… 2.7 KB |
| 23. | Conflict | Mental struggle that arises from the simultaneous operation of opposing impulses, drives, and external (environmental) or internal demands. Termed intrapsychic when the conflict is between More… 0.3 KB |
| 24. | Confounds | Variables whose effects are so intermixed that they cannot be measured separately, making the design of an experiment internally invalid and its results impossible to interpret. |
| 25. | Congruence bias | In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and to avoid information and More… 1.6 KB |
