Glossary C

Central Sleep Apnea (CSA) refers to a type of sleep apnea in which the brain briefly stops sending messages to the muscles to continue breathing, causing a pause in breath during sleep.

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Central Sleep Apnea (CSA) refers to a type of sleep Apnea in which the brain briefly stops sending messages to the muscles to continue breathing, causing a pause in breath during sleep.

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Central sulcus refers to the large groove in the surface of the primate cerebral cortex, separating frontal from parietal cortex

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Central tendency refers to a statistical measure that identifies a single score that defines the center of a distribution. It provides a representative value for the entire group.

Central tendency error refers to a type of rating error in which a rater consistently rates all employees in the middle of the scale, regardless of their actual levels of performance.

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Central traits refer to the core traits that characterize an individual personality ; the handful of outstanding traits that describe a person's behavior. It includes the 5 to 10 traits that best describe a person’s personality.

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Deutsch: Zentrierung / Español: centración / Português: centração / Français: centration / Italiano: centramento

Centration in psychology refers to a cognitive tendency, particularly observed in young children, to focus on one aspect of a situation while ignoring other relevant features. This concept is part of Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and is most prominent during the preoperational stage (ages 2–7). It plays a significant role in how children perceive and understand their environment, often leading to errors in judgment and reasoning.

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- Centration (Centered thinking) : Centration means focusing on one dimension of a situation while ignoring others. In Piaget's theory, Centration is the tendency of pre-operational children to attend to one aspect of a situation to the exclusion of others in contrast with Decentration. According to Piaget, Centration means narrowly focused type of thought characteristic of pre-operational children