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forensic neuroscience

an emerging field in which the regulation of certain behaviors, including criminal, antisocial, sociopathic, and psychopathic, is viewed in light of neural mechanisms that may determine such behaviors. Theoretically, these behaviors are seen as arising not from an individual’s failure to know right from wrong but from neural mechanisms that may be functioning improperly.

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November 28th 2024

complementary classification

complementary classification

in classification tasks, the grouping of items from conceptually different categories into a superordinate class based on an individual’s mental associations from past experience. For example, cow, tractor, and farmer may be grouped because they are all found on a farm. Also called functional classification; schematic classification; thematic classification. Compare conceptual classification; idiosyncratic classification; perceptual classification.