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| Terms | Type | Definition |
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| abductive reasoning | concept | the first stage of scientific inquiries and of any interpretive processes; the process of adopting an explanatory hypothesis and covers two operations: the selection and the formation of plausible hypotheses... |
| abstract analogy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| abstract knowledge | concept | Knowledge that is general and not tied to a specific instance. |
| acoustic coding | concept | a type of short term memory coding in which you remember information by the way it sounds. (from http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110291/about/glossary.php) |
| acoustic encoding | concept | the processing and encoding of sound, words, and all other auditory input for storage and later retrieval. (from Wikipedia) |
| acoustic phonetic processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acoustic processing | concept | the extraction of information from signals propagated undersea, in the atmosphere, or in the solid earth in the presence of acoustic noise. (from answers.com) |
| acoustic reflex | concept | an involuntary muscle contraction that occurs in the middle ear of mammals in response to high-intensity sound stimuli. (From Wikipedia) |
| action | concept | the bringing about of an alteration by force or through a natural agency; expression by means of attitude, voice, and gesture; a function of the body or one of its parts; an act of will; a thing done; the accomplishment of a thing usually over a period of time, in stages, or with the possibility of repetition... |
| Action imitation task | task | A task in which a participant sees another person perform an action and later performs the same action him/herself. Imitation can be immediate or delayed. It can be instructed or elicited implicitly (without the participant's conscious awareness)... |
| action initiation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Action observation task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| action selection | concept | The selection of one action from a set of possible actions. |
| activation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| activation level | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| active maintenance | concept | The maintenance of information in working memory through active (volitional) rather than passive means |
| active recall | concept | a principle of efficient learning, which claims the need to actively stimulate memory during the learning process. (from Wikipedia) |
| active retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acuity | concept | keenness of perception. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| adaptation | concept | adjustment to environmental conditions; adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment... |
| adaptive control | concept | modifying the control law used by a controller to cope with the fact that the parameters of the system being controlled are slowly time-varying or uncertain. (from Wikipedia) |
| Adult Attachment Interview | task | a procedure for assessing adults' strategies for identifying, preventing, and protecting the self from perceived dangers, particularly dangers tied to intimate relationships. (from http://www.patcrittenden... |
| affect perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| affect recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| agglutinative language | concept | is a language in which most words are made by stringing sets of morphemes together. Modern examples include Basque, Turkish, Hungarian, and Finnish. |
| allograph | concept | a letter of an alphabet in a particular shape; a letter or combination of letters that is one of several ways of representing one phoneme. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| allomorph | concept | any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme; any of two or more different crystalline forms of a chemical compound, such as a mineral. (from thefreedictionary.com) |
| allophone | concept | one of two or more variants of the same phoneme. (From merriam-webster.com) |
| altruism | concept | having the motivation to help others without reward. |
| altruistic motivation | concept | A desire or need to help others driven by selflessness |
| alveolar | concept | of, relating to, resembling, or having alveoli; of, relating to, or constituting the part of the jaws where the teeth arise, the air-containing compartments of the lungs, or glands with secretory cells about a central space; articulated with the tip of the tongue touching or near the teethridge... |
| amodal representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analog representation | concept | a value or variable in analog form. (from computing-dictionary.com) |
| analogical encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical problem solving | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical reasoning | concept | a method of processing information that compares the similarities between new and understood concepts, then uses those similarities to gain understanding of the new concept; a form of inductive reasoning... |
| analogical transfer | concept | The transfer of knowledge from one situation to another by finding a set of one-to-one correspondences between aspects of one body of information and aspects of another. |
| analogy | concept | inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others; resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike; correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form; correspondence in function between anatomical parts of different structure and origin... |
| anchoring | concept | a neuro-linguistic programming term for the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimulus, in such a way that perception of the stimulus (the anchor) leads by reflex to the anchored response occurring... |
| anomaly detection | concept | detecting patterns in a given data set that do not conform to an established normal behavior. (from Wikipedia) |
| anticipation | concept | The process before a certain event occurs |
| Antisaccade/prosaccade task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| apparent motion | concept | The illusory perception that movement is occurring in one or more static images. |
| apparent movement | concept | the subjective perception of movement when in fact no physical movement is taking place. (from psychology.wikia.com) |
| apperception | concept | the process by which new experience is assimilated to and transformed by the residuum of past experience of an individual to form a new whole. (From Wikipedia) |
| appetitive motivation | concept | behavior directed toward goals that are usually associated with positive hedonic processes. (From http://www.addictionscience.net/ASNreport01.htm) |
| arousal | concept | to rouse or stimulate to action or to physiological readiness for activity. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| articulation | concept | the action or manner of jointing or interrelating; the state of being jointed or interrelated; the act of giving utterance or expression; a joint or juncture between bones or cartilages in the skeleton of a vertebrate... |
| articulatory loop | concept | (also referred to as the ‘phonological loop’), is one of the subsystems postulated in Alan Baddeley’s multicomponent model of WORKING MEMORY, specialized for the temporary storage of verbal information, consisting of two sub-components, a phonological store and an articulatory rehearsal process... |
| articulatory planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| articulatory rehearsal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| assimilation | concept | the process of receiving new facts or of responding to new situations in conformity with what is already available to consciousness. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| association | concept | an organization of persons having a common interest; something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person; the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories... |
| association learning | concept | learning process in which a new response becomes associated with a particular stimulus. (from britannica.com) |
| associative intrusion | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attachment | concept | the state of being personally attached; the physical connection by which one thing is attached to another; the process of physically attaching. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| attended channel | concept | the single input, out of multiple simultaneous inputs, a research subject is instructed to attend to. (from /psychology.lyana.ca//dictionary/attended-channel/) |
| attended stimulus | concept | the specific object in the environment on which our attention is focused. (From psychology.about.com) |
| attention | concept | the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. (from Wikipedia) |
| attention capacity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attention shift | concept | The change that occurs when information that is currently active in the mind is replaced by other information. The information content is typically sensory in nature. |
| attention shifting | concept | The process by which information that is currently relevant in the mind is replaced by other information. This information is typically sensory in nature but may also be semantic. |
| attention span | concept | Amount of time or space that an individual can dedicate to particular task or content without becoming distracted. |
| attentional blink task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional effort | concept | a motivated activation of attention systems in order to stabilize or recover attentional performance in response to the detection of errors and reward loss or, more generally, deteriorating attentional performance... |
| attentional focusing | concept | The ability to focus attention on cues in the environment that are relevant to the task in hand. (from www.answers.com) |
| attentional resources | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional state | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attenuation | concept | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of; to reduce the severity, virulence, or vitality of. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| attitude | concept | a position assumed for a specific purpose; a mental position with regard to a fact or state; an organismic state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus (as an object, concept, or situation)... |
| audio-visual target-detection task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| audiovisual perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| audition | concept | the power or sense of hearing; the act of hearing. (From merriam-webster.com) |
| auditory | concept | of or relating to hearing; attained, experienced, or produced through or as if through hearing; marked by great susceptibility to impressions and reactions produced by acoustic stimuli. (From http://www... |
| auditory attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory coding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory feedback | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory grouping | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory imagery | concept | the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory stimulation. (from Wikipedia) |
| auditory learning | concept | a learning style in which a person learns through listening. (From Wikipedia) |
| auditory lexical access | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory localization | concept | a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound. (from psychology.wikia.com) |
| auditory masking | concept | the perception of one sound is affected by the presence of another sound. (from Wikipedia) |
| auditory memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory perception | concept | The ability to identify, interpret, and attach meaning to sound. (From medterms.com) |
| auditory scene | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory scene analysis | concept | the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful elements. (from Wikipedia) |
| auditory sentence comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory stream segregation | concept | the perceptual grouping of sounds, to form coherent representations of objects in the acoustic scene, and is a fundamental aspect of hearing and speech perception. (from http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/short/92/2/1088, Primitive Auditory Stream Segregation: A Neurophysiological Study in the Songbird Forebrain, Mark A... |
| auditory word comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory word recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory working memory | concept | Working memory for auditory information |
| autobiographical memory | concept | a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual’s life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory... |
| autobiographical recall | concept | episodes recollected from an individual’s life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory... |
| automaticity | concept | largely or wholly involuntary; especially; acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously; done or produced as if by machine; having a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| availability heuristic | concept | A heuristic in which people predict the frequency of classes or the probability of events based on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind. |
| aversive learning | concept | behavior modification using an adverse stimulus in response to the inappropriate or undesirable behavior. (from http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/aversive+conditioning) |
| awareness | concept | having knowledge or cognizance. (from thefreedictionary.com) |
| AX-CPT task | task | A version of the continuous performance task in which subjects are told to make one response for the letter X when it was preceded by the letter A, and another response for all other stimuli. |