Glossary C

Glossary C

Cognitive constraint is a bias that children are assumed to use to infer the meanings of words.

Cognitive Control refers to the ability to create subjective realities for oneself, or as directed by a leader; the power of an individual or group to give different meanings to situations.

Cognitive coping is the idea that beliefs play a central role in helping people cope with and recover from misfortunes

Cognitive costs refers to an approach to the study of stress that emphasizes how stressful events tax perceptual and cognitive resources, draw off attention, or deplete cognitive resources for other tasks.

Cognitive development refers to age-related changes that occur in mental activities, such as attending, perceiving, learning, thinking, and remembering.

Cognitive disorders refer to disorcers such as Dementia, Delirium, or Amnesia characterized by impairments in Cognition, such as deficits in memory, language, or planning and caused by a medical condition or by substance intoxication or withdrawal

Cognitive dissonance refers to tension that arises when one is simultaneously aware of two inconsistent cognitions.

Cognitive dissonance theory refers to a model proposed by Leon Festinger, which states that awareness of consonant cognitions makes humans feel good, whereas awareness of dissonant cognitions makes humans feel bad.