Glossary C
Glossary C
A colleague is a fellow member of the same profession.
Colleagues are those explicitly united in a common purpose and respect each other's abilities to work toward that purpose. A colleague is an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office. In a narrower sense, members of the faculty of a university or college are each other's colleagues.
Deutsch: Sammlung / Español: Colección / Português: Coleção / Français: Collection / Italiano: Collezione /
In the realm of psychology, the term "collection" is not typically used in the same way as it might be in other contexts. However, we can interpret "collection" in the psychology context as the gathering, compilation, or aggregation of various psychological constructs, data, or information. These collections are essential for research, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
Collective is defined as a relatively large aggregation or group of individuals who display similarities in actions and outlook.
Collective behavior refer to the actions of a group of people who are responding in a similar way to an event or situation, including people who all occupy the same location, as well as mass phenomena in which individuals are dispersed across a wide area.
- Collective conscious (or groupmind) : Collective conscious is a hypothetical unifying mental force linking group members together; the fusion of individual consciousness or mind into a transcendent consciousness.
- Collective effort model (CEM) : Collective effort model (CEM) refers to a theoretical explanation of group productivity developed by Steven Karau and Kipling Williams that traces losses of productivity in groups to diminished expectations about successful goal attainment and the diminished value of group goals.