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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| pain | concept | An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. |
| palatal | concept | formed with some part of the tongue near or touching the hard palate posterior to the teethridge; of, relating to, forming, or affecting the palate. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| Pantomime Task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Parrott Scale | task | No definition submitted yet |
| parser | concept | In computer technology, a parser is a program, usually part of a compiler, that receives input in the form of sequential source program instructions, interactive online commands, markup tags, or some other defined interface and breaks them up into parts (for example, the nouns (objects), verbs (methods), and their attributes or options) that can then be managed by other programming (for example, other components in a compiler)... |
| parsing | concept | to resolve (as a sentence) into component parts of speech and describe them grammatically; to examine in a minute way, analyze critically. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| passive attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| past tense | concept | refers to a form of a verb that indicates that the action already has occurred |
| pattern recognition | concept | The process of identifying a meaningful pattern in raw data. |
| pavlovian conditioning | concept | a form of learning in which either (1) a given stimulus (or signal) becomes increasingly effective in evoking a response or (2) a response occurs with increasing regularity in a well-specified and stable environment... |
| perception | concept | the conscious experience or mental registration of a sensory stimulus |
| perceptual binding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual categorization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual fluency | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual identification | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual learning | concept | long lasting improvement in performing perceptual (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory or taste) tasks as a function of experience. (from Wikipedia) |
| perceptual similarity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual skill | concept | The ability to observe and understand the events surrounding an individual. |
| performance monitoring | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pharyngeal | concept | of, relating to, located in, or coming from the pharynx. (from medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com) |
| phonation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phoneme | concept | any of the abstract units of the phonetic system of a language that correspond to a set of similar speech sounds (as the velar k of cool and the palatal k of keel) which are perceived to be a single distinctive sound in the language... |
| phonemic code | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonetics | concept | the system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages; the study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| phonological buffer | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological code | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological loop | concept | deals with sound or phonological information and consists of two parts: a short-term phonological store with auditory memory traces that are subject to rapid decay and an articulatory rehearsal component that can revive the memory traces... |
| phonological retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological working memory | concept | The process of maintaining sound information online for a limited amount of time. |
| phonology | concept | The use of variations in sound to relate and organize meaning in language. |
| phrase | concept | a group of words functioning as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. (From Wikipedia) |
| picture naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| place of articulation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| planning | concept | the act or process of making or carrying out plans; the establishment of goals, policies, and procedures for a social or economic unit. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| plosive | concept | a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract, oral stops with a pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism; used to describe nasal (non-oral) stops (sounds like [n] and [m]). (from Wikipedia) |
| pluperfect | concept | A tense with a perfect aspect, used to refer to an event that has been completed before another past action. |
| plural | concept | of, relating to, or constituting a class of grammatical forms usually used to denote more than one or in some languages more than two; relating to, consisting of, or containing more than one or more than one kind or class... |
| polysemy | concept | The capacity of a word or symbol to have multiple meanings. |
| Positive and Negative Affect Scale | task | A psychometric scale to measure positive and negative affects in individuals, and both as states and traits. |
| Posner cueing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| posture | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| practice | concept | The repetition of a behavior in order to improve performance. |
| pragmatic inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pragmatic knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pragmatic reasoning | concept | Pragmatic reasoning is defined as the process of finding the intended meaning(s) of the given, and it is suggested that this amounts to the process of inferring the appropriate context(s) in which to interpret the given... |
| pragmatics | concept | a branch of semiotic that deals with the relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users; a branch of linguistics that is concerned with the relationship of sentences to the environment in which they occur... |
| preattentive processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| preconscious perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| precueing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prejudice | concept | preconceived judgment or opinion; an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge; an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics... |
| preposition | concept | a function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a modification or predication. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| prescriptive grammar | concept | a set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language, usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. Prescriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as certain people (editors and teachers) think it should be used... |
| present tense | concept | A set of rules in language that express actions/states that occur in present time. |
| primary memory | concept | the temporary maintenance system for conscious processing of information. (from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/531745/secondary-memory) |
| proactive inhibition | concept | the forgetting of information due to interference from the traces of events or learning that occurred prior to the materials to be remembered; occurs when in any given context, past memories inhibit an individual’s full potential to retain new memories... |
| proactive interference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| problem solving | concept | Broadly, the mental processes involved in finding a solution to a problem. |
| procedural knowledge | concept | Knowledge exercised in the performance of a task/activity. Its acquisition or structure is often unavailable to the actor. |
| procedural learning | concept | A non-verbal process of knowledge acquisition. |
| procedural memory | concept | memory for how to do things; procedural memories are automatically retrieved and utilized for the execution of the step-by-step procedures involved in both cognitive and motor skills. (from Wikipedia) |
| procedural rule | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| processing capacity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| processing stage | concept | A subset of mental operations that are confined some feature space of information within a stream and/or hierarchy of mental operations. |
| pronoun | concept | any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| pronunciation | concept | the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. (from Wikipedia) |
| proper noun | concept | A subject that usually indicates a particular person, place, or object. |
| proprioception | concept | the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. (From Wikipedia) |
| prosodic stress | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prosody | concept | the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. (from Wikipedia) |
| prospective memory | concept | remembering to perform an intended action...prospective memory is self-initiated and does not operate directly on external stimuli. (From Wikipedia) |
| prospective planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prototype | concept | A most common, standard or basic mental representation of some category. |
| pseudohomophone | concept | is a letter string that does not form a word in the language but whose pronounciation based on spelling-to-sound correspondences matches an existing word in the language, e.g. brane |
| pseudoword | concept | a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language (at least superficially), while in fact it is not part of the lexicon. Within linguistics, a pseudoword is defined specifically as respecting the phonotactic restrictions of a language... |
| Pseudoword naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| pyramids and palm trees task | task | a semantic memory test that measures the capacity to access detailed semantic information about words and pictures, necessary for the identification of the analogies, which link conceptually two perceptually, and functionally distinct entities... |