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Catharsis

A psychoanalytic principle of emotional release.

Cognition

A general mental activity associated with thought, knowledge, perception, memory etc.

Cognitive maps

A mental representation of the spatial location of different objects in the environment. Collective Unconscious: In Jung’s theory, a part of unconscious shared by all human beings.

Complex

A debilitating belief held by an individual despite contradictory objective evidence.

Conditioned reflex

A response that is produced by a mental stimulus after being paired presented with an initially effective stimulus.

Connectionism

A school of psychology that explain all or most behaviour in terms of stimulus-response connection.

Consciousness

A state of awareness with one’s own mental condition.

Construct

A concept representing relationship between objects or events.

Context theory of meaning

The fact that the meaning of anything results from the context in which it occurs in consciousness.

Contiguity

A principle that emphasizes upon nearness in time and/or space.

Continuity

A principle of learning that emphasizes upon small, smooth and regular changes step by step.

Creative synthesis

A principle that lay emphasis upon the fact that new characteristics generally emerge from the combination of elements into wholes.

Cybernetics

Study of communication and control mechanism. Control is typically achieved by feedback information about the behaviour done.