What is Cognition?
Cognition is the concept of thinking, learning, and storing information.
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.
What is Consciousness?
Awareness of yourself and the world around you.
What is a Cell Body?
The cell body is the part of a neuron where it holds information.
What is Continuous Reinforcement?
The application of reinforcement every time a specific behavior occurs.
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.
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.
What is Conservation?
Conservation is when one understands that even though the shape of an object may change, the matter/mass stays the same.
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.
What is a Control Group?
The group of subjects in an experiment that does not receive the independent variable.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
When you realizes your actions don't align with your beliefs
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.
What is Consolidation?
The physiological changes in the brain associated with memory storage.
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.
What is Correlation?
Statistical representation of a relationship between two or more variables which does not determine cause and effect
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).
What is Conditioning?
The process of learning new behaviors or responses as a result of their consequences.
What is Consolidation Failure?
The failure to store information in memory.
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.
What is a Critical Period?
A time frame deemed highly important in developing in a healthy manner; can be physically, emotionally, behaviorally, or cognitively.
What is Coercive Power?
Coercive Power is when someone with power over you has the ability to punish you for something.
What is Conformity?
Changing your attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors in order to be more consistent with others.
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.
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.
What is Crowding?
When you think there are too many people in an area.