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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| California Verbal Learning Test-II | task | A comprehensive and detailed assessment of verbal learning and memory available for older adolescents and adults. In addition to recall and recognition scores, it measures encoding strategies, learning rates, error types, and other process data... |
| Cambridge Face Memory Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| capacity limitation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| case based reasoning | concept | the process of solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems. (from Wikipedia) |
| categorical clustering | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorical knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorical perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorization | concept | the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. (From Wikipedia) |
| category based induction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| category fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| category learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| causal inference | concept | The process of defining that one state/object/event determines the occurrence of another state/object/event. |
| central attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Central Coherence | concept | A person's ability to understand things in context |
| central executive | concept | The core mental process of working memory that allows for information that is stored in short-term memory to be actively manipulated (e.g., mental arithmetic). The term 'central executive' is typically associated with psychologist Alan Baddeley's "Model of Working Memory". |
| centration | concept | the tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others. (from Wikipedia) |
| chemonociception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Chimeric Animal Stroop Task | task | A task in which participants are shown pictures of chimeric animals (such as a duck's head attached to a cow's body) and asked to name animal that the head belongs to while ignoring the identity of the body, or vice versa... |
| choice | concept | the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them. (from Wikipedia) |
| choice reaction time task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| chromatic contrast | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| chunk | concept | Structure in memory that is used as a unit of knowledge representation. Also refers to the process of learning by which these units are acquired. |
| chunking | concept | The process of recoding information by splitting or reorganizing it into smaller parts. |
| Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-3 | task | 3rd edition of an assessment used to evaluate the nature and extent of language difficulties in school children and adolescents. (from www.psychcorp.co.uk/Psychology) |
| clustering | concept | the assignment of a set of observations into subsets (called clusters) so that observations in the same cluster are similar in some sense. Clustering is a method of unsupervised learning, and a common technique for statistical data analysis... |
| cochlear microphonic | concept | the electrical potential generated in the hair cells of the organ of Corti in response to acoustic stimulation. (from medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com) |
| cognition | concept | The process of thought; includes all psychological/mental functions that allow for subsequent reflection given some information. |
| cognitive control | concept | The top-down modulation of cognitive processes based on higher-order representations such as goals or plans. |
| cognitive development | concept | the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. (from http://www.healthofchildren.com/C/Cognitive-Development... |
| cognitive dissonance | concept | The mental state in which a person holds multiple conflicting ideas simultaneously |
| cognitive effort | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cognitive heuristic | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cognitive load | concept | The amount of demand placed on working memory, typically expressed along some continuum and within a theoretical maximum. |
| cognitive map | concept | a type of mental processing composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual can acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment... |
| coherence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cohesion | concept | (computer science) a measure of how well the lines of source code within a module work together to provide a specific piece of functionality. In object-oriented programming, the degree to which a method implements a single function... |
| color perception | concept | The process of distinguishing objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect or emit. |
| color-discrimination task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Color-word Stroop Task | task | A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name... |
| communication | concept | a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior. (From Wikipedia) |
| competition | concept | the act or process of competing; active demand by two or more organisms or kinds of organisms for some environmental resource in short supply; a contest between rivals. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| comprehension | concept | the act or action of grasping with the intellect, understanding; the capacity for understanding fully. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| concept | concept | a cognitive unit of meaning—an abstract idea or a mental symbol sometimes defined as a "unit of knowledge," built from other units which act as a concept's characteristics. (from Wikipedia) |
| concept learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual category | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual coherence | concept | combining a set concepts to make sense of a situation or set of situations. (from http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/CCCC.html#anchor02) |
| conceptual planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual skill | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptualization | concept | to form a concept of; to interpret (from merriam-webster.com) |
| conditional reasoning | concept | the reasoner must draw a conclusion based on a conditional, or “if…then,” proposition. (From britannica.com) |
| conflict detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conjunctive search | concept | the process of searching for a target that is not defined by any single unique visual feature, but by a combination of two or more features. (from Wikipedia) |
| connotation | concept | the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes; something suggested by a word or thing; the signification of something; an essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic... |
| consciousness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| consolidation | concept | the process of uniting, the quality or state of being united. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| consonant | concept | being in agreement or harmony; having similar sounds; relating to or exhibiting consonance. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| consonant cluster | concept | a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. (From Wikipedia) |
| constancy | concept | steadfastness of mind under duress; a state of being constant or unchanging. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| constituent structure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| context | concept | A set of interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs (e.g., a style of language in a particular passage, activity of a given regions given sensory input). |
| context dependent | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| context memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| contextual knowledge | concept | information, and/or skills that have particular meaning because of the conditions that form part of their description. (from http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/currclum/cu3lk8.htm) |
| contingency learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Continuous Performance Task | task | A task in which subjects are presented with a stream of letters, and must respond to one of the letters and refrain from responding to any other letters. |
| continuous recognition paradigm | task | No definition submitted yet |
| contrastive stress | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conventionality | concept | the quality, fact, or condition of being conventional; conventional behavior or act; a conventional form, usage, or rule. (from yourdictionary.com) |
| convergence | concept | the approach toward a definite value, a definite point, a common view or opinion, or toward a fixed or equilibrium state. (From Wikipedia) |
| convergent thinking | concept | analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed. (from thefreedictionary.com) |
| conversation | concept | An exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas. (From merriam-webster.com) |
| conversational norm | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conversational speech | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conversational structure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coordination | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coproduction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coreference | concept | a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one stands as a linguistic antecedent of the other. (from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coreference) |
| CPT | task | A continuous performance task |
| creative cognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| creative problem solving | concept | the mental process of independently creating a solution to a problem without learned assistance. (from Wikipedia) |
| creative thinking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| critical period | concept | a limited time in which an event can occur, usually to result in some kind of transformation; in developmental psychology and developmental biology, it is a time in the early stages of an organism's life during which it displays a heightened sensitivity to certain environmental stimuli, and develops in particular ways due to experiences at this time... |
| crosstalk | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| crystallized intelligence | concept | the ability to utilize previously acquired knowledge and experience (from Psychology Wiki) |
| cue dependent forgetting | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cue validity | concept | the conditional probability that an object falls in a particular category given a particular feature or cue. (From Wikiepdia) |
| cueing | concept | to give/present a stimulus that prompts a reaction. |
| culture | concept | the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations; the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; the characteristic features of everyday existence shared by people in a place or time; the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization; the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic... |
| Cups task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| cyclicity | concept | the quality of recurring at regular intervals. (From thefreedictionary.com) |