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Construal Construal is a social psychological term that refers to the way in which (or the process of) people perceive, comprehend, and…

Consolidation Consolidation is primarily a Neuropsychology term, referring to a process in which information is stored in various parts of the brain…

Conservation Conservation is one of Piaget’s developmental accomplishments, in which the child understands that changing the form of a substance or object…

Consciousness Consciousness, many have argued, is what separates humans from other animals. Consciousness refers to our awareness of our own mental processes,…

Conscience Your conscience is what tells you whether an action is right or wrong. It is the reason you have guilt or…

Connectedness Connectedness is a sensation and perception term that refers to the perception of uniform or linked spots, lines, or areas as…

Conjunction Fallacy A conjunction fallacy occurs when two events that can occur together or separately are seen as more likely to occur…

Congruence Carl Rogers stated that the personality is like a triangle made up of the real self, the perceived self, and ideal…

Confounding Variable A Confounding Variable is an extraneous variable whose presence affects the variables being studied so that the results you get…

Confound Confounding is when a researcher does not control some extraneous variables that may influence the results…the only variable that should influence…