Glossary C

Competitive Anxiety: Competition can cause athletes to react both physically (somatic) and mentally (cognitive) in a manner which can negatively affect their performance abilities.

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Competitive goal structure is a term used when students work against each other to achieve goals that only a few students can attain.

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Deutsch: Ergänzung / Español: Complemento / Português: Complemento / Français: Complément / Italiano: Complemento

A complement is a noun phrase that includes a verb, for example, you sat down in I see you sat down.

In psychology, the term complement refers to something that completes or goes well with something else, enhancing its qualities or making it whole. This concept can be seen in several psychological frameworks, especially in theories related to personality, relationships, and cognitive processes.

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Complementarity refers to the popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people, for each to complete what is missing in the other.

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Complementarity principle refers to the tendency for group members to like people who are dissimilar to them in ways that complement their personal qualities

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- Complementary (functional, schematic, thematic) classification : Complementary (functional, schematic, thematic) classification is a term in classification tasks which refers to the grouping together of items from conceptually different categories based on inter-relationships in a person's past experiences or in the present situation. In contrast with Idiosyncratic, Perceptual, and Conceptual Classification.

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Complementary medicine is defined as a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not currently considered part of conventional medicine and are used in addition to conventional techniques.

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Complementary principle refers to the tendency for group members to like people who are dissimilar to them in ways that complement their personal qualities.