Complementary colour

Competence

Colour solid

Colour constancy

Colour circle

Cognitive therapy

Cognitive-social approach to personality

Cognitive-developmental theory

Cognitive development

Coefficient of relatedness

Codon

Cocktail party phenomenon

Co-actor

Coaction

Acting alongside of, or with, another person, but without active co-operation or interaction.

one of two individuals performing the same task within the same space.

the ability to attend to a single conversation in a crowded room; an example of stimulus segmentation.

a triplet of bases along DNA which build amino acids.

in sociobiology, the average proportion of genes that are shared between family members.

the process of developing understanding and memory and acquiring knowledge, which occurs throughout childhood.

the idea that gender identity arises from a mixture of biologically based stages of development and the person's developing awareness of gender role and its application.

in personality studies, an approach to the study of behaviour which emphasizes the individual's expectations and hypotheses about the social world.

a form of psychotherapy which is based on changing people's beliefs, attitudes and attributions about their worlds, and so helping them to act more positively and to change things for the better.

a simple way of illustrating how perceived hue and saturation depend upon the wavelength and spectral composition of a light and which can be used to predict the perceived colour of mixtures of monochromatic light. See also colour solid.

the perceptual phenomenon by which the perceived colour of a surface remains constant despite variations in the spectral composition of the light that it reflects.

an extension of the colour circle which adds the dimension of perceived brightness. comparative method an approach applied in socio-biology, where the distribution of a particular bodily feature among a living species is studied in order to deduce at what point in evolution that feature was first seen.

that aspect of a theory which is the abstract knowledge which helps to describe some phenomena, as opposed to the performance theory. In language research a competence theory tries to capture generalizations about what language is and what it does.

a colour that complements any colour evoked by a monochromatic light, such that when the two lights, e.g. red-green, blue-yellow are mixed in equal proportions, the resulting colour is white.

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