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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| iconic memory | concept | very brief sensory memory of some visual stimuli, that occur in the form of mental pictures. (from alleydog.com) |
| idiom | concept | the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class; an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as Monday week for “the Monday a week after next Monday”)... |
| illocutionary force | concept | a speaker's intention in delivering an utterance. (from grammar.about.com) |
| imageability | concept | is a property of a word or concept reflecting how easy or difficult it is to visually imagine. |
| imagery | concept | an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses... |
| immediate recall test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| implicit knowledge | concept | knowledge that is kept in a person’s mind without necessarily being expressed in words and is often acted on instinctively. (from hrdictionary.com) |
| implicit memory | concept | Type of memory in which experiences increases performance of task without one's conscious awareness of these previous experiences. This type of memory applies to habit learning, skills, conditioning. |
| imprinting | concept | a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal and establishes a behavior pattern (as recognition of and attraction to its own kind or a substitute) (From Merriam-Webster Online) |
| inattention | concept | The failure to process an external stimulus (often refers to sensory stimuli). |
| incidental learning | concept | Learning without explicit knowledge of doing so, but occurring through interaction with the environment (e.g., by observation/copying of behavior or response to reinforcement). |
| incubation | concept | (psychology) the process of thinking about a problem subconsciously while being involved in other activities; (medical) the time between being exposed to infection and showing first symptoms. (from Wikipedia) |
| indignation | concept | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| induction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inductive inference | concept | theory of prediction based on observations. (from Wikipedia) |
| inductive reasoning | concept | reasoning from a specific case or cases and deriving a general rule, drawing inferences from observations in order to make generalizations. (from changingminds.org) |
| inference | concept | the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former; the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty... |
| infinitive | concept | a verb form normally identical in English with the first person singular that performs some functions of a noun and at the same time displays some characteristics of a verb and that is used with 'to' (as in “I asked him to go”) except with auxiliary and various other verbs (as in “no one saw him leave”)... |
| inflection | concept | is marking a word with an affix to indicate its grammatical category such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. |
| inhibition | concept | The process by which a response (neural or behavioral) is diminished. |
| inhibition of return | concept | the observation that the speed and accuracy with which an object is detected are first briefly enhanced (for perhaps 100-300 milliseconds) after the object is attended, and then detection speed and accuracy are impaired (for perhaps 500-3000 milliseconds)... |
| insight | concept | In problem solving, the moment at which an underlying relation between cause and effect is discovered/identified. |
| instinct | concept | a natural or inherent aptitude, impulse, or capacity; a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason, behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level... |
| instrumental conditioning | concept | A learning process in which the consequences of an action are used to modify the likelihood that that action will reoccur. |
| instrumental learning | concept | learning based on reward; a form of learning that takes place as a direct consequence of a reward or pleasant outcome for the learner. (from http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861692504/instrumental_learning... |
| integration | concept | the act or process or an instance of integrating; coordination of mental processes into a normal effective personality or with the individual's environment; the operation of finding a function whose differential is known... |
| intelligence | concept | the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; the skilled use of reason; the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria; the ability to perform computer functions... |
| intension | concept | a determination to act in a certain way; what one intends to do or bring about. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| intention | concept | an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result; meaning or significance. (From dictionary.com) |
| intentional forgetting | concept | the purposeful forgetting of information that is no longer needed. (from http://myweb.dal.ca/ttaylor2/) |
| intentional learning | concept | learning that is motivated with intention and is usually goal directed. (from psycholgia.wikia.com) |
| intentionality | concept | the state of having or being formed by an intention; (philosophy) the property of being about or directed toward a subject, as inherent in conscious states, beliefs, or creations of the mind, such as sentences or books... |
| interference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| interference resolution | concept | The process of selecting information with regard to its relevance to an ongoing task. |
| intermediate term memory | concept | a specialized term referring for information about a current task. (from http://www.memorylossonline.com/glossary/memory.html) |
| internal speech | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| International Affective Picture System | task | a database of photographs used in emotion research. (from psychology.wikia.com) |
| interrogative | concept | of, pertaining to, or conveying a question. (From dictionary.reference.com) |
| intonation | concept | the ability to play or sing notes in tune; manner of utterance, specifically the rise and fall in pitch of the voice in speech. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| Intradimensional shift task | task | A task in which multiple (typically two) stimuli are presented simultaneously and the subject must select the stimulus that matches the currently relevant rule. The rule represents the relevant task "dimension"... |
| intrinsic motivation | concept | a highly desired form of incentive that stems from a person's internal desire for self-satisfaction or pleasure in performing the task itself. (from about.com) |
| introspection | concept | the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious mental and usually purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings... |
| involuntary attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Iowa Gambling Task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| irony | concept | a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance that goes strikingly beyond the most simple and evident meaning of words or actions. (from Wikipedia) |
| Ishihara plates for color blindness | task | a test for red-green color deficiencies that consists of a number of colored plates, called Ishihara plates, each of which contain a circle of dots appearing randomized in color and size. Within the pattern are dots which form a number visible to those with normal color vision and invisible, or difficult to see, for those with a red-green color vision defect... |