Category: C

The results or effects of a decision. The result of an action. The emotional and behavioral outcomes in Ellis’s ABC model.  

In law, a court-approved agreement that has the force of law.  

In law, the agreement or rejection by someone considered legally competent to agree or reject participation in an act informed consent. A legal term referring to the patient’s right to make his own treatment decisions, based upon knowledge of the relevant alternatives and the benefits and risks of each. An “informed consent” is the consent…

The greater the consensus in other people’s response to a stimulus, the greater the attribution of causality to that stimulus.  

Sexual activity in which the persons involved voluntarily participate.  

Sexual activity outside of marriage and according to terms of an agreement between the spouses, consensual adultery.  

Adultery in which people agree to their mate’s extramarital activity, consensual extramarital sex; consensual sexual behavior.  

A technique that aims to sensitize group members to oppressive influences on their lives and to develop a sense of solidarity and a means of collective defense within the group.  

Occurring as a result of the perceptive attention of the person.  

Those related by blood as opposed to by marriage or adoption.