Category: C

  • Cooperative learning

    Learning characterized by learners teaching each other or sharing each other’s knowledge. An educational strategy in which learners join in small, structured groups to complete educational tasks, solve problems together, and further each other’s understanding of material.  

  • Cooperative education

    A method employed in which learners teach each other or share knowledge of experiences.  

  • Cooperation

    A social process whereby each person or groups work together to achieve mutually agreed upon goals. The act of working together for a common goal or purpose.  

  • Cooling-off period

    In labor relations, a provision of law that postpones a strike or lockout action to give mediation agencies an opportunity to settle a dispute.  

  • Coolidge effect

    The availability of a new sexual partner that stimulates the male’s desire to have intercourse with the new partner.  

  • Cooley’s anemia trait

    A genetic condition when a person has the recessive gene for Cooley’s anemia. Those with the trait are healthy and will not suffer the symptoms of the disease but may pass the defective gene to their offspring.  

  • Cooley’s anemia

    A genetic disorder characterized by the inability of the body to produce hemoglobin. A person with must have blood transfusions. The disease can be detected by a simple blood test; but the positive diagnosis requires hemoglobin electrophoresis testing: Cooley’s anemia trait. An inherited disease in which there is abnormal production of part of the hemoglobin…

  • Cool-down

    In physiology and exercise, the use of 5-10 min of very light exercise movements at the end of a vigorous workout to slowly cool the body to near normal core temperature. A gradual decrease in the intensity of activity to restore a normal heart rate. Cool-down is the final segment of the three-segment workout. The…

  • Cooing

    A meaningless vocalization that is purely vocalic consisting of vowel-like sounds.  

  • Convulsive therapy

    Treatment used for some forms of psychoses. The treatment causes the person to experience controlled convulsions. Two methods have been used: (a) electroconvulsive shock treatment and (b) insulin shock treatment.