Glossary C
Glossary C
Culture -free refers to descriptive of a test in which cultural biases have been removed. On such a test, test takers from different cultural backgrounds would have an equal opportunity to earn scores that reflect their true abilities.
- Culture-relevant tests : Culture -relevant tests refer to measurement of skills and knowledge that relate to the cultural experiences of the test-takers
Cumulative recording refers to a graphical representation of number of responses over time (hence, of rate of responding), Skinner used this widely in his investigations of bar pressing and key pecking.
Cumulative relation is a term in heredity , when the allelic states of a gene in a single pair of chromosomes combine to influence a trait.
Cumulative-deficit hypothesis refers to the notion that impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth and that these inhibiting effects accumulate over time.