Category: C

  • Complant

    Willing to follow directions.  

  • Complex indicator

    In the association word test, an indication of an emotional difficulty associated with the stimulus word. The indication may take the form of an unusual response, a protracted latency, or other evidence of concern or upset.  

  • Completion test item

    A test item that evaluates a learner’s recall of certain facts. The item is usually constructed as an incomplete statement wherein the learner provides the necessary word or words to complete the statement with factual information.  

  • Complete uncertainty condition

    The decision making situation in which the decision maker has absolutely no idea what the results of an implemented alternative will be complete certainty condition.  

  • Complete protein foods

    Foods that contain all of the essential amino acids in amounts sufficient for growth and maintenance of body functions.  

  • Complete certainty condition

    The decision making situation in which the decision maker knows exactly what the results of an implemented alternative will be uncertainty condition.    

  • Complement fixation

    A process that helps to make antigen antibody complexes easier for phagocytes to digest. Immunologic response in which an antigen combines with an antibody and its complement, causing the complement to become inactive. This phenomenon is the basis of certain blood tests to determine the presence of antibodies against specific diseases. Blood test in which…

  • Complementary needs

    The needs of a potential mate that are different from those possessed by the partner, compatible needs.  

  • Complementary genes

    In genetics, genes which are similar in phenotypic effect when present separately, but which together interact to produce a different character. Nonallelic, independently located genes, neither of which will be expressed in the absence of the other.  

  • Complementarity in attraction

    In sociology, the tendency for people to be attracted to those traits and capacities that complement their own.