Glossary C

Confidentiality of records refers to the critical ethical and legal issue that address the importance of confidentiality records, the probable right of parents to their children’s records as well as clients to their own records. Please see Buckley Amendment.

Configural learning is defined as performance of a task in which the meaning of a stimulus depends on what other stimuli are paired with it

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Deutsch: Konfiguration / Español: Configuración / Português: Configuração / Français: Configuration / Italian: Configurazione

Configuration in the psychology context refers to the arrangement or organization of psychological elements within an individual or a system. This can include mental structures, cognitive processes, personality traits, and the interplay between different psychological factors that shape behaviour and mental states.

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Confinement against one’s will refers to the critical ethical and legal issue that addresses the fact that an individual cannot be hospitalized against his or her will unless he or she is in danger of harming self or another. Please see Donaldson v. O’Connor.

Confirmable propositions is a term used within science, as propositions capable of validation through empirical tests.

Confirmation is a term which according to Tolman, is the verification of a hypothesis, expectancy, or belief.

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Confirmation Bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs.

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Confirmational Bias refers to the the tendency to seek out information that confirms rather than disconfirms one's hypothesis; accepting only information that agrees with our conclusion; the tendency to look for information that supports our views