| File Name |
Description |
| Case study | A detailed study of an individual or small group of people. ... |
| Categorisation | Grouping people into social categories or sets. According to Tajfel (1970) ... |
| Categorisation | This is a cognitive process and refers to the tendency to group sets of objects that have ... |
| Catharsis | In psychoanalysis this refers to the release of pent up psychic energy. ... |
| Ceiling Effect | This occurs when a test is too easy and many of the participants score near the ... |
| Central Tendency | This is a type of descriptive statistic which is used to describe the typical value of a ... |
| Cerebral Cortex | This is the surface layer of the forebrain (cerebrum). It does not fit into the skull ... |
| Cerebrum | This is another name for the forebrain which is the largest part of the human ... |
| Chronic pain | One of the distinctions that psychologists make about types of pain is between acute pain ... |
| Classical Conditioning | A form of learning through association.
Ivan Pavlov, whilst experimenting on dogs, ... |
| Clinical Psychology | This is an applied area of psychology which uses psychological insights and techniques ... |
| Clinician | This is a term meaning clinical psychologist. A clinical psychologist is a ... |
| Cognition | This refers to mental processes such as perception, memory, thinking, reasoning and so ... |
| Cognitive Dissonance | This is a type of imbalance of beliefs and behaviour. If we hold beliefs which ... |
| Cognitive Interview Technique | A cognitive interview is a procedure designed for use in police interviews
... |
| Cognitive Psychology | A branch of psychology which is concerned with the study of cognitions.
Cognitive ... |
| Commisurotomy | A surgical procedure to sever the corpus callosum. ... |
| Comparative Psychology | This refers to the study of animals and is aimed at identifying similarities and ... |
| Comparative Psychology | This refers to the study of animals and is aimed at identifying similarities and ... |
| Concrete Operational Stage | According to Piaget this is a stage of cognitive development (approximately 7 – 11 ... |
| Conditioned Response | In classical conditioning this is a response which occurs when the conditioned stimulus ... |
| Conditioned Stimulus | In classical conditioning this is a stimulus which elicits a response as a result of ... |
| Conditioning | This term is used by behaviourists to describe the process of learning. Behaviourists ... |
| Confederate | In psychology experiments a confederate is an individual who is not a real participant ... |
| Conformity | This is a type of social influence whereby group pressure results in a change in ... |
| Confounding variable | A confounding variable is a variable which has an unintentional effect on the dependent ... |
| Conservation | According to Piaget this is the ability to recognise that volume, number or mass do ... |
| Consonance | In terms of cognitive dissonance theory this refers to the opposite of dissonance ... |
| Construct Validity | Construct validity is a way of assessing validity by investigating if the measure really ... |
| Content Analysis | This involves a quantitative analysis of information people have produced. This ... |
| Control group | Often used in experiments. This is a group which does not receive the ... |
| Corpus callosum | The bundle of nerve fibres that connect the two hemispheres of the cerbral cortex. ... |
| Correlation | This refers to a measure of how strongly two or more variables are related to each other. ... |
| Correlation Coefficient | A correlation coefficient refers to a number between -1 and +1 and states how strong a ... |
| Cortex | The outer most layer of nerve tissue in the cerebral cortex ... |
| Counterbalancing | This is a strategy often used when carrying out a repeated measures design to control for ... |
| Creativity (Language) | The ability to produce and understand an infinite number of novel utterances. Brown ... |
| Criminal Psychology | This is an applied area of psychology which uses psychological insights and techniques ... |
| Criterion Validity | Criterion validity is a way of assessing validity by comparing the results with another ... |
| Cross-Cultural Psychology | This is an approach which attempts to understand the variability and differences of ... |
| Cross-cultural research | Research where more than one culture is studied. Often cross-cultural research ... |
| Cross-sectional research | This type of research is often found in developmental psychology and involves comparing ... |
| Crowd Psychology | This is the psychological study of the behaviour of masses and crowds and the experience ... |
| Cultural Complexity | According to cross-cultural psychology this term refers to the way that different ... |
| Cultural universal | A cultural universal is a behaviour which is observed to be the same across cultures. ... |
| Culture | This term is usually used to refer to the beliefs, practices, ideas, characteristics and ... |
