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Constitutive criminology refers to the study of the process by which human beings create an ideology of crime that sustains the notion of crime as a concrete reality.

Constraint-based model refers to a model of sentence comprehension in which people simultaneously use all available information, semantic, syntactic, contextual, and so on, in their initial parsing of a sentence.

Constricting actions is defined as an interaction in which one partner tries to emerge as the victor by threatening or contradicting the other.

Construal refers to the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world.

Construct is defined as an intellectual hypothesis that people devise and use to interpret or explain life events. Constructs are bipolar or dichotomous, as in tall versus short or good versus bad, or beautiful or ugly and so on.

Construct systems is a term used by Kelly that refers to the collection of personal constructs with which people make predictions about future events.

Construct validity refers to the test which is demonstrated to be a measure of a job-relevant characteristic (e.g., reasoning ability ).

Construct validity approach refers to an approach to test construction in which scales are developed based on a specific theory, refined using factor analysis and other procedures, and through emperical study, validated by showing that individuals who achieve certain scores behave in ways that could be predicted by their scores.

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Glossary C

Glossary C

Constitutive criminology

Constraint-based model

Constricting actions

Construal

Construct

Construct systems

Construct validity

Construct validity approach

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