Glossary C
Glossary C
Catecholamines refer to organic compounds, including Epinephrine, Norepinephrine, and Dopamine. They are a class of neurotransmitters, Epinephrine and Norepinephrine, and Dopamine that promote sympathetic nervous system activity; released in substantial quantities during stressful times.They contain both catechol and an amine (NH2)
Categorical Approach refers to an approach to studying personality that posits qualitatively different types of people, instead of continuous trait dimensions along which people can vary.
Categorical perception is the discontinuous categories of speech sounds. In speech perception, perceiving one sound at short voice onset times and another sound at longer voice onset times. The listener perceives only two (2) categories across the whole range of voice onset times. It is the perception of stimuli that vary along a physical continuum as belonging to discrete categories. Moreover, it is the inability to discriminate sounds within a phonemic category. Please see also Phoneme boundary effect.
Deutsch: Kategorisches Selbst / Español: Yo Categórico / Português: Eu Categórico / Français: Soi Catégorique / Italiano: Sé Categorico /
Categorical self refers to a person’s classification of the self along socially significant dimensions such as age and sex; definitions of the self that refer to concrete external traits.