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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| habit | concept | An acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically and is reliably triggered by some event or stimulus. |
| habit learning | concept | Gaining knowledge or skill through repetitious behavior. |
| habit memory | concept | occurs when information is stored subconsciously, through repetition and trial-and-error learning. (from http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/07/27/12074.aspx?page=2) |
| hallucination | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| happiness | concept | a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. (from Wikipedia) |
| hearing | concept | the process, function, or power of perceiving sound; the special sense by which noises and tones are received as stimuli. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| hedonism | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| heuristic search | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| hill climbing | concept | A fast but sometimes unreliable optimization method. When searching for the minimum/maximum value of a function a random step is taken; if the value improves it replaces the current value, then another random step is taken... |
| homonym | concept | A word that sounds exactly the same as another word and also has the same spelling have different meanings, e.g. club as a place to dance vs. club as a large stick |
| homophone | concept | A word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning, such as "nun" and "none". |
| homunculus | concept | An illustration of the amount of physical brain matter devoted to sensory or motor representations of the specific parts of the body |
| Hooper Visual Organization Test | task | a neuropsychological test of visual spatial ability that presents participants with a line drawing of a common object that has been broken into fragments, and asks participants to name what the object would be if reassembled. |
| humiliation | concept | to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| humor | concept | the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. (from Wikipedia) |
| hypernym | concept | A linguistic term for a word whose meaning includes the meanings of other words. (from http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/hypernym.htm) |