Category: C

  • Cognitive field theory

    Cognitive learning theory.  

  • Cognitive experience

    In the drug culture, psychedelic experience marked by clearness of thought.  

  • Cognitive domain

    In education, that aspect of learning that involves the recall or recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills. One of three key categories of instructional content and learning objectives described by Benjamin Bloom, referring to thinking skills such as problem-solving, memory and recall, comprehension, reasoning, and judgment; the others are the…

  • Cognitive dissonance

    An uncomfortable conflict between two realities that do not match and that often leads to the use of the defense mechanism, rationalization. Cognitive dissonance refers to a state of mental or emotional unease caused by conflicting thoughts, beliefs, values, and behaviors within an individual. For instance, a person may purchase a pair of well-crafted shoes…

  • Cognitive developmental theory of identification

    The theory that identification with same sex models is a result of conceptualizing oneself as feminine or masculine, rather than a cause of such conceptualization.  

  • Cognitive conceit

    A common assumptive reality among children that adults are not very bright although the children are assumptive reality.  

  • Cognitive balance

    A process characterized by attitudes going together harmoniously.  

  • Congentin

    A commercial preparation of benztropine.  

  • Coffee grounds vomitus

    Coffee grounds vomitus

    A vomitus having the appearance and consistency of coffee grounds indicates slow bleeding in the stomach and represents the vomiting of partially digested blood. Vomit containing dark pieces of blood, indicating that the person is bleeding from the stomach or upper intestine. The act of expelling partially digested blood from the stomach, resembling ground coffee…

  • Coffea arabica

    Coffea arabica

    The plant from which the coffee bean is grown, caffeine.