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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. |
| hallucination | concept | in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space... |
| happiness | concept | a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. |
| Haptic Illusion Task | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| Hayling Sentence Completion Test | task | Participants are given the beginnings of sentences to complete. The sentences appear to have expected answers. In the first condition, participants must complete the sentence with a/the word that makes sense... |
| hearing | concept | the process, function, or power of perceiving sound; the special sense by which noises and tones are received as stimuli. |
| heat sensitization/adaptation | task | A long (~ 30 seconds or more) heat stimulus is applied to the skin and the participant rates the experienced sensation continuously on a visual analogue scale |
| heat stimulation | task | A heat stimulus is applied to the skin and the participant rates the experienced sensation on a visual analogue scale |
| hedonism | concept | a school which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good, often used as a justification for evaluating actions in terms of how much pleasure and how little pain (i.e. suffering) they produce. |
| heuristic search | concept | refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery. Heuristic methods are used to speed up the process of finding a good enough solution, where an exhaustive search is impractical... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| humor | concept | the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. |