100

What is Cognition?

Cognition is the concept of thinking, learning, and storing information.

100

What is Compulsion?

Compulsion is when someone feels the need to do/repeat an action because they feel inclined to do so to get over an obsession.

100

What is Consciousness?

Awareness of yourself and the world around you.

100

What is a Cell Body?

The cell body is the part of a neuron where it holds information.

100

What is Continuous Reinforcement?

The application of reinforcement every time a specific behavior occurs.

200

What is Cognitive Therapy?

Cognitive therapy is a psychotherapy that works to change thought patterns around behaviors and feelings that may be seen as harmful.

200

What is a Conditioned Response?

The response in a stimulus-response chain that is not naturally occurring, but rather has been learned through its pairing with a naturally occurring chain. 

200

What is Conservation?

Conservation is when one understands that even though the shape of an object may change, the matter/mass stays the same.

200

What is Centration?

Centration is when a kid can only see an object from their perspective and doesn't understand that others have different perspecitive.

200

What is a Control Group?

The group of subjects in an experiment that does not receive the independent variable.

300

What is Cognitive Dissonance?

When you realizes your actions don't align with your beliefs

300

What is Conditioned Stimulus?

The stimulus in a stimulus-response chain that is not naturally occurring, but rather has been learned through its pairing with a naturally occurring chain.

300

What is Consolidation?

The physiological changes in the brain associated with memory storage.

300

What is Classical Conditioning?

The behavioral technique of pairing a naturally occurring stimulus and response chain with a different stimulus in order to produce a response which is not naturally occurring.

300

What is Correlation?

Statistical representation of a relationship between two or more variables which does not determine cause and effect

400

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Treatment involving the combination of behaviorism (based on the theories of learning) and cognitive therapy (based on the theory that our cognitions or thoughts control a large portion of our behaviors).

400

What is Conditioning?

The process of learning new behaviors or responses as a result of their consequences.

400

What is Consolidation Failure?

The failure to store information in memory.

400

What is Chemical Imbalance?

A generic term for the idea that chemical in the brain are either too scarce or too abundant resulting in a mental disorder such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

400

What is a Critical Period?

A time frame deemed highly important in developing in a healthy manner; can be physically, emotionally, behaviorally, or cognitively.

500

What is Coercive Power?

Coercive Power is when someone with power over you has the ability to punish you for something.

500

What is Conformity?

Changing your attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors in order to be more consistent with others. 

500

What is Context Dependent Memory?

Context Dependent Memory is basically that when memories are made in a place, they are remembered better in that time or place.

500

What is Client Centered Therapy?

A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in the way.  

500

What is Crowding?

When you think there are too many people in an area.

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