Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Copolymers

    Mixtures of more than one polymer.  

  • Coping strategies

    The ways people devise to help prevent, avoid, or control emotional distress.  

  • Coping skills

    Techniques one uses for coping: coping mechanisms. Any characteristic or behavioral pattern that enhances a person’s adaptation. Coping skills include a stable value or religious belief system, problem solving, social skills, health-energy, and commitment to a social network.  

  • Coordinate repression

    In genetics, control of structural genes in an operon by a single operator gene. Simultaneous reduction of the enzyme levels of a metabolic pathway.  

  • Cooperative play

    Play that is organized for some specific purpose and that requires a division of labor. Players are easily distinguished from nonplayers in.  

  • Cooperative learning

    Learning characterized by learners teaching each other or sharing each other’s knowledge. An educational strategy in which learners join in small, structured groups to complete educational tasks, solve problems together, and further each other’s understanding of material.  

  • Cooperative education

    A method employed in which learners teach each other or share knowledge of experiences.  

  • Cooperation

    A social process whereby each person or groups work together to achieve mutually agreed upon goals. The act of working together for a common goal or purpose.  

  • Cooling-off period

    In labor relations, a provision of law that postpones a strike or lockout action to give mediation agencies an opportunity to settle a dispute.  

  • Coolidge effect

    The availability of a new sexual partner that stimulates the male’s desire to have intercourse with the new partner.  

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