IQ (intelligence quotient.). 's an index number result of the division between the age measured by different tests and chronological age. This figure is indicative of the level of intelligence possessed by an individual in relation to other subjects of the same age. The CI tends to remain relatively stable over time.
Caffeine. Tonic central nervous system stimulant and heart. Enhances brain activity, but its abuse causes cardiac arrhythmia, insomnia and headaches.
Capabilities. 're hypothetical mental abilities allow the human mind act and feel in a way that transcends the laws of nature.
Character. assembly characteristics that distinguish one person from another.
Character neurosis. Exaggeration of certain personality traits that cause behavioral disorders.
Practicality. A person of character or temperament is practical to permanently oriented real facts, adopts attitudes useful against them and not get carried away by sentimentality.
Catalepsy. neurological disorder characterized by complete loss of the ability to voluntarily modify muscle tone, the patient remaining in the same position in which he has been placed for an extended period of time.
Cataplexy. Episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone that causes the collapse of the individual, often in association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear or surprise.
Catharsis. Liberation, through the word, ideas relegated to the unconscious defense mechanism.
Catatonia. psychomotor syndrome characterized by loss of motor initiative, cataleptic muscle tension, presence of phenomena paracinéticos (mannerism, stereotypy, drives) and oppositional mental state and stupor.
Catecholamine. hormone that activates the central nervous system.
Censorship. According to Freud, the part of the psyche that drives blocks or masks prohibited by the superego.
Brain. complex structure belonging to the nervous system, located within the skull, the seat of higher thought processes, such as memory and reason.
Brain washing. Disruption caused by the intellect and the emotions that leads to the revelation of secrets and false confessions by the subject, as well as a change of political and moral ideals.
Sexual response cycle. sexual response cycle is an activation scheme, physiological consists of four steps: 1) excitation, 2) plateau 3) orgasm and resolution 41.
Cyclothymia. periodic alternation of phases of depression with manic phases.
Close. Closing (or enclosure) is an innate organizing principle of perception, according to which the gaps which separate sensations are "close" automatically in order to form wholes or complete configurations.
Claustrophobia. phobia of enclosed spaces.
Kleptomania. Disorder in impulse control, characterized by pathological tendency to steal items that subsequently not used for any practical purpose.
Climacteric. Stage sexual aging process in which women lose their reproductive capacity.
Clinical Psychology. study abnormal or pathological behavior.
Cocaine. stimulant that comes from the coca plant, evergreen shrub from South America. Hence comes the coca paste or cocaine hydrochloride, a white powder that acts as a CNS stimulant. It causes euphoria and excitement, feeling of well-being. It does not feel physical fatigue or psychological, so that the person has consumed overestimate their abilities.
Intelligence quotient (IQ). 's an index number result of the division between the age measured by different tests and chronological age. This figure is indicative of the level of intelligence possessed by an individual in relation to other subjects of the same age. The CI tends to remain relatively stable over time.
Cognition. processing and image conscious thought.
Compensation. unconscious psychological mechanism by which the subject tries to counter real or imagined inferiority.
Oedipus Complex. According to Freud, the set of relations established between the child and his parents from two to five years, during the phallic phase. The child identifies himself as a sexual being, and directs his amorous desires to the opposite sex parent, establishing the other a troubled relationship with jealousy, fear and guilt.(From the Greek myth of Oedipus.)
Electra Complex. According to Freud, the girl equivalent to the Oedipus complex (the Greek myth of Electra).
Inferiority complex. Complex for which a subject constantly feels inferior to others, although there is no reason whatsoever to justify this feeling continued.
Compulsion. Unnecessary repetition of acts, derived from a sense of need is not amenable to the control of the will. It differs from the delusions in which the subject who experiences it is aware of the absurdity of his conduct.
Consciousness. structure of personality in that psychic phenomena are fully perceived and understood by the person.
Condensation. Merger of two or more persons or concepts in one image.
Classical conditioning. Classical conditioning occurs when a previously neutral stimulus becomes capable of eliciting a learned response.
Operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which an organism's behavior is a result in their immediate environment. The agency "opera", so to speak, about the world around him.
Conduct. overall reaction of the subject against different environmental situations.
Aggressive behavior. Occurs when an organism attacks with hostility, physically or verbally, to another body or object.
C ONDUCT abnormal. 's the one that departs significantly on a cultural norm or criterion or standard group. If the word "abnormal" is used in a negative or pejorative sense, refers to a maladaptive behavior, self-destructive behavior, usually a cause of distress to the individual or others.
Conduct of Type A. It is a pattern of behavior in which predominate the aggressiveness, impatience, selfishness and inability to relax.
Hyperkinetic behavior. was characterized by restlessness and uneasiness. inattention and excessive muscle movement.
Instinctive behavior. 's innate behavior, considered little more than a reflection, and a repertoire encompassing more complex and depends on the maturation of learning.
Neurotic behavior. inflexible maladaptive behavior, which is associated with one or more of the following attributes: excessive anxiety, emotional distress, irrational fears, somatic complaints with no organic basis and tendency to avoid certain situations caused stress, rather than effectively address them.
Social behavior. exists Any improper interaction between two or more human beings.
Conflict. contemporary presence in the same person two opposite character motivations but of equal intensity.
Mental confusion. Decreased activity of consciousness , from mild lethargy to stupor.
Object Constancy. 's the perceived tendency of an object to maintain its size, shape, color, brightness and other attributes relatively independently of the changes in the retinal image.
Constitution. overall body conformation. According to certain streams is related to the personality.
Latent content. According to psychoanalysis, the latent content of a sound is its true meaning, hidden by the manifest or surface content.
Contiguity. contiguity exists between two objects or events when they touch each other or are very close in time and space. There is a tendency for people to associate with each other such objects or events.
Counterconditioning. process that combines conditioning with extinction . Requires: 1) the presentation of a conditioned stimulus capable of eliciting an undesirable response, and 2) the simultaneous presentation of a stimulus capable of eliciting an antagonistic response to the undesirable.
Countertransference. Projection medical unconscious feelings toward the patient.
Conversion. Transformation of an unconscious conflict in somatic manifestations, sensory or motor. Typical phenomenon of conversion hysteria or neurosis.
Seizure. contraction or widespread involuntary muscle spasm.
Correlation. There correlation between two variables when they changed so that the values of which are taken to some degree, predictable from that making the other.
Cortisone. hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex.
Creativity. intellectual process characterized by originality, the spirit of adaptation and the possibility of concrete achievements.
Cretinism. Severe mental weakness, associated with a delay in bone development and due to a malfunction of the thyroid gland.
Panic attacks. consists of the sudden onset of anxiety at its most intense. The typical crisis usually occurs quite suddenly, without prior warning symptoms. These crises are experienced by the patient as a sign of impending doom, the intensity of suffering is equivalent to that of someone who note that he will be killed. It is accompanied by physical symptoms of panic: tachycardia, palpitations, rapid breathing, shortness of breath or shortness of breath, nausea or abdominal distress, dizziness, fainting or lightheadedness, pallor, cold hands and feet, chest tightness that sometimes reaches be chest pain, sweating, paresthesia (numbness or tingling), fear of losing control or "going crazy" and fear of dying.
Chromosome. structure located inside the cell nucleus. Transmits the genetic code, which depend on hereditary characteristics.
Questionnaire. assembly questions that the subject may respond orally or in writing, intended to highlight certain aspects psychics.
Guilt feeling. painful experience that derives from the more or less conscious feeling of having transgressed the social or personal ethical standards.
Normal curve. The normal curve represents a theoretical distribution of probabilities, meaning that describes the relationship between a random variable and the frequency with which their values are presented. Is bell-shaped, and is also known as Gauss curve .
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