UsernameBGregory
OrganizationUniversity of Texas at Austin
Account Created2010-03-04 11:03:06
Terms63 terms contributed2011-06-16: Reward Task ()2010-09-10: Writing Task2010-09-10: Word Stem Completion (Overt)2010-09-10: Word Stem Completion (Covert)2010-09-10: Whistling2010-09-10: Visual Pursuit/Tracking2010-09-10: Visual Distractor/Visual Attention2010-09-10: Video Games2010-09-10: Vibrotactile Monitor/Discrimination2010-09-10: Tone Monitor/Discrimination2010-09-10: Theory of Mind Task2010-09-10: Tactile Monitor/Discrimination2010-09-10: Syntactic Discrimination2010-09-10: Subjective Emotional Picture Discrimination2010-09-10: Spatial/Location Discrimination2010-09-10: Sequence Recall/Learning2010-09-10: Reward Task2010-09-10: Rest2010-09-10: Recitation/Repetition (Overt)2010-09-10: Recitation/Repetition (Covert)2010-09-10: Reading (Overt)2010-09-10: Reading (Covert)2010-09-09: Pointing2010-09-09: Pitch Monitor/Discrimination2010-09-09: Phonological Discrimination2010-09-09: Passive Viewing2010-09-09: Passive Listening2010-09-09: Paired Associate Recall2010-09-09: Pain Monitor/Discrimination Task2010-09-09: Orthographic Discrimination2010-09-09: Olfactory Monitor/Discrimination2010-09-09: Non-Painful Thermal Stimulation2010-09-09: Non-Painful Electrical Stimulation2010-09-09: Naming (Overt)2010-09-09: Naming (Covert)2010-09-09: Music Comprehension/Production2010-09-09: Micturition Task2010-09-09: Mental Rotation Task2010-09-09: Isometric Force2010-09-09: Imagined Objects/Scenes2010-09-09: Imagined Movement2010-09-09: Grasping Task2010-09-09: Free Word List Recall2010-09-09: Flexion/Extension2010-09-09: Flashing Checkerboard2010-09-09: Fixation Task2010-09-09: Finger Tapping Task2010-09-09: Film Viewing2010-09-09: Face Monitor/Discrimination2010-09-09: Episodic Recall2010-09-09: Encoding Task2010-09-09: Eating/Drinking2010-09-09: Drawing2010-09-09: Divided Auditory Attention2010-09-09: Deductive Reasoning Task2010-09-09: Deception Task2010-09-09: Cued Explicit Recognition2010-09-09: Counting/Calculation2010-09-09: Classical Conditioning2010-09-09: Chewing/Swallowing2010-09-09: Breath-Holding2010-09-09: Braille Reading Task2010-09-09: Acupuncture Task
Definitions319 definitions contributed2011-06-16: Reward Task () :: "Subjects perform a task in which correct performance is associated with reward, often monetary rewar"2011-05-18: discourse comprehension :: "Discourse comprehension is the act of interpreting a written or spoken message by integrating the in"2011-05-18: emotional intelligence :: "the capacity, skill or ability to identify, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of ot"2011-05-18: altruistic motivation :: "A desire or need to help others driven by selflessness."2011-05-18: verbal memory :: "Recall based on spoken words."2011-05-18: imprinting :: "a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal and establishes a beh"2011-05-18: strategy :: "A plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal."2011-05-18: crystallized intelligence :: "the ability to utilize previously acquired knowledge and experience."2011-05-18: California Verbal Learning Test-II :: "A comprehensive and detailed assessment of verbal learning and memory available for older adolescent"2011-05-18: melody :: "(Also tune, voice, or line), is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single "2011-05-18: rhythm :: "Movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different"2011-05-18: Symptom Checklist-90-Revised :: "a relatively brief self-report psychometric instrument designed to evaluate a broad range of psychol"2011-05-18: conversation :: "An exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas."2011-05-18: auditory learning :: "a learning style in which a person learns through listening."2011-05-18: pavlovian conditioning :: "a form of learning in which either (1) a given stimulus (or signal) becomes increasingly effective i"2011-05-18: categorization :: "the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood."2011-05-18: fluid intelligence :: "a factor of general intelligence originally identified by Raymond Cattell; Cattell defined fluid int"2011-05-18: intention :: "an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result; meaning or significance."2011-05-18: desire :: "to long or hope for, exhibit or feel desire for; to express a wish for."2011-05-18: social cognition :: "the encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing, in the brain, of information relating to conspecif"2011-05-18: auditory :: "of or relating to hearing; attained, experienced, or produced through or as if through hearing; mark"2011-05-18: appetitive motivation :: "behavior directed toward goals that are usually associated with positive hedonic processes. "2011-05-18: language processing :: "the way human beings process speech or writing and understand it as language."2011-05-18: lateral inhibition :: "the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors."2011-05-18: conditional reasoning :: "the reasoner must draw a conclusion based on a conditional, or “if…then,” proposition."2011-05-18: proactive inhibition :: "the forgetting of information due to interference from the traces of events or learning that occurre"2011-05-18: nociception :: "the neural processes of encoding and processing noxious stimuli."2011-05-18: apperception :: "the process by which new experience is assimilated to and transformed by the residuum of past experi"2011-05-17: prejudice :: "preconceived judgment or opinion; an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or befor"2011-05-17: pragmatic reasoning :: "Pragmatic reasoning is defined as the process of finding the intended meaning(s) of the given, and i"2011-05-17: surprise :: "a brief emotional state that is the result of experiencing an unexpected relevant event."2011-05-17: prospective memory :: "remembering to perform an intended action...prospective memory is self-initiated and does not operat"2011-05-17: communication :: "a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, "2011-05-17: proprioception :: "the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body."2011-05-17: auditory perception :: "The ability to identify, interpret, and attach meaning to sound."2011-05-17: interrogative :: "of, pertaining to, or conveying a question."2011-05-17: unconscious process :: "a mental process that you are not directly aware of."2011-05-17: audition :: "the power or sense of hearing; the act of hearing."2011-05-17: skill :: " Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience."2011-05-17: memory decay :: "the loss of memory over time."2011-05-17: cue validity :: "the conditional probability that an object falls in a particular category given a particular feature"2011-05-17: narrative :: "a story that is created in a constructive format (as a work of writing, speech, poetry, prose, pictu"2011-05-16: dream :: "a succession of thoughts, images, sounds or emotions which the mind experiences during sleep."2011-05-16: intrinsic motivation :: "a highly desired form of incentive that stems from a person's internal desire for self-satisfact"2011-05-16: aversive learning :: "behavior modification using an adverse stimulus in response to the inappropriate or undesirable beha"2011-05-16: convergent thinking :: "analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in"2011-05-16: auditory scene analysis :: "the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful elements"2011-05-16: metacognition :: "awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes."2011-05-16: remote memory :: "memory for events of long ago as opposed to recent events."2011-05-16: gestalt :: "a collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic entities that creates a unified conc"2011-05-16: thermosensation :: "the sensory perception of thermal stimuli."2011-05-16: grapheme :: "a unit (as a letter or digraph) of a writing system; the set of units of a writing system (as letter"2011-05-16: Kanizsa figures :: "An ambiguous figure in which the illusory contour of a square (or triangle) appears in the middle of"2011-05-16: logic :: "a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration; th"2011-05-16: functional fixedness :: "a cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used."2011-05-16: active recall :: "a principle of efficient learning, which claims the need to actively stimulate memory during the lea"2011-05-16: memory retrieval :: "4 different processes of accessing stored memories: recall, recollection, recognition, relearning."2011-05-16: Doors and People Test :: "Doors and People is a test of long-term memory. It yields a single age-scaled overall score which ca"2011-05-16: intentional learning :: "learning that is motivated with intention and is usually goal directed."2011-05-16: filtering :: "a device or process that removes from a signal some unwanted component or feature."2011-05-16: somatosensation :: "the components of the central and peripheral nervous systems that receive and interpret sensory info"2011-05-16: prosody :: "the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech."2011-05-16: cognitive map :: "a type of mental processing composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an indivi"2011-05-16: mood :: "a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion."2011-05-16: implicit knowledge :: "knowledge that is kept in a person’s mind without necessarily being expressed in words and is ofte"2011-05-16: inductive reasoning :: "reasoning from a specific case or cases and deriving a general rule, drawing inferences from observa"2011-05-16: emotional expression :: "observable verbal and nonverbal behavior that communicates emotion with or without self-awareness."2011-05-16: metamemory :: "the learners' awareness of and knowledge about their own memory systems and strategies for using"2011-05-16: Backward digit span task :: "a test used to measure working memory, attention, concentration, and mental control. In a typical t"2011-05-16: connotation :: "the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes; somethi"2011-05-16: speech processing :: "the study of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals."2011-05-16: critical period :: "a limited time in which an event can occur, usually to result in some kind of transformation; in dev"2011-05-16: manipulation :: "to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful man"2011-05-16: orthography :: "the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage; the representation of "2011-05-16: novelty detection :: "the identification of new or unknown data or signals that a machine learning system is not aware of "2011-05-16: echolocation :: "the general method of locating objects by determining the time for an echo to return and the directi"2011-05-16: irony :: "a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordan"2011-05-16: hearing :: "the process, function, or power of perceiving sound; the special sense by which noises and tones are"2011-05-16: frustration :: "a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or "2011-05-16: Gray Oral Reading Test - 4 :: "measures growth in oral reading and aids in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties. Five scores "2011-05-16: intentional forgetting :: "the purposeful forgetting of information that is no longer needed."2011-05-16: judgment :: "a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion; the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by d"2011-05-16: creative problem solving :: "the mental process of independently creating a solution to a problem without learned assistance."2011-05-16: lexical ambiguity :: "the presence of two or more possible meanings within a single word."2011-05-16: backward chaining :: "an inference method used in automated theorem provers, proof assistants and other artificial intelli"2011-05-16: case based reasoning :: "the process of solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems."2011-05-16: social context :: "the identical or similar social positions and social roles as a whole that influence the individuals"2011-05-16: spatial memory :: "the part of memory responsible for recording information about one's environment and its spatia"2011-05-16: lemma :: "a proposition proved, or sometimes assumed, to be true and used in proving a theorem; the subject of"2011-05-16: reasoning :: "drawing of inferences or conclusions through the use of reason."2011-05-16: comprehension :: "the act or action of grasping with the intellect, understanding; the capacity for understanding full"2011-05-16: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised :: "a general test of intelligence, which Wechsler defined as, "... the global capacity of the indiv"2011-05-13: acoustic reflex :: "an involuntary muscle contraction that occurs in the middle ear of mammals in response to high-inten"2011-05-12: wisdom :: "accumulated philosophic or scientific learning."2011-05-12: conventionality :: "the quality, fact, or condition of being conventional; conventional behavior or act; a conventional "2011-05-12: analog representation :: "a value or variable in analog form."2011-05-12: association :: "an organization of persons having a common interest; something linked in memory or imagination with "2011-05-12: acuity :: "keenness of perception. "2011-05-12: automaticity :: "largely or wholly involuntary; especially; acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously; done or pr"2011-05-12: auditory imagery :: "the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory stimulation."2011-05-12: shame :: "a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety; a condition of humi"2011-05-12: articulation :: "the action or manner of jointing or interrelating; the state of being jointed or interrelated; the a"2011-05-12: hill climbing :: "A fast but sometimes unreliable optimization method. When searching for the minimum/maximum value o"2011-05-12: schema :: "a diagrammatic presentation; broadly; a structured framework or plan; a mental codification of exper"2011-05-12: echoic memory :: "refers to the phenomenon in which there is a brief mental echo that continues to sound after an audi"2011-05-12: conjunction search :: "the process of searching for a target that is not defined by any single unique visual feature, but b"2011-05-12: attachment :: "the state of being personally attached; the physical connection by which one thing is attached to an"2011-05-12: explicit memory :: "the conscious, intentional recollection of previous experiences and information."2011-05-11: language comprehension :: "The ability to understand communication from others, such as speech, written text, gestures, or sign"2011-05-11: analogical reasoning :: "a method of processing information that compares the similarities between new and understood concept"2011-05-11: grief :: "deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement."2011-05-11: naming :: "to give a name to; to mention or identify by name; to decide on; to mention explicitly."2011-05-11: phonological loop :: "deals with sound or phonological information and consists of two parts: a short-term phonological st"2011-05-11: habit memory :: "occurs when information is stored subconsciously, through repetition and trial-and-error learning."2011-05-11: belief :: "a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing; conviction "2011-05-11: inference :: "the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose "2011-05-11: shallow processing :: "a mode of thinking in which one pays attention only to appearances and other superficial aspects of "2011-05-11: intonation :: "the ability to play or sing notes in tune; manner of utterance, specifically the rise and fall in pi"2011-05-10: analogy :: "inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agre"2011-05-10: Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-3 :: "3rd edition of an assessment used to evaluate the nature and extent of language difficulties in scho"2011-05-10: speech perception :: "the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood. "2011-05-10: intentionality :: "the state of having or being formed by an intention; (philosophy) the property of being about or dir"2011-05-10: International Affective Picture System :: "a database of photographs used in emotion research."2011-05-10: conceptualization :: "to form a concept of; to interpret."2011-05-10: indignation :: "anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean."2011-05-10: attitude :: "a position assumed for a specific purpose; a mental position with regard to a fact or state; an orga"2011-05-10: autobiographical recall :: "episodes recollected from an individual’s life, based on a combination of episodic (personal exper"2011-05-10: motor learning :: "the process of improving motor skills, the smoothness and accuracy of movements."2011-05-10: constancy :: "steadfastness of mind under duress; a state of being constant or unchanging."2011-05-10: procedural memory :: "memory for how to do things; procedural memories are automatically retrieved and utilized for the ex"2011-05-10: fixed action patterns :: "an instinctive behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion."2011-05-10: parsing :: "to resolve (as a sentence) into component parts of speech and describe them grammatically; to examin"2011-05-10: routine :: "a regular course of procedure; habitual or mechanical performance of an established procedure; a rei"2011-05-04: awareness :: "having knowledge or cognizance. "2011-05-04: perceptual learning :: "long lasting improvement in performing perceptual (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory or taste) t"2011-05-04: syntax :: "the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or"2011-05-04: integration :: "the act or process or an instance of integrating; coordination of mental processes into a normal eff"2011-05-04: inhibition of return :: "the observation that the speed and accuracy with which an object is detected are first briefly enhan"2011-05-04: iconic memory :: "very brief sensory memory of some visual stimuli, that occur in the form of mental pictures."2011-05-04: assimilation :: "the process of receiving new facts or of responding to new situations in conformity with what is alr"2011-05-04: pronunciation :: "the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word."2011-05-04: morphology :: "(linguistics) the study of the structure and content of word forms; (biology) the study of the form "2011-05-04: adaptive control :: "modifying the control law used by a controller to cope with the fact that the parameters of the syst"2011-05-04: autobiographical memory :: "a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual’s life, based on a combinati"2011-05-04: logical thinking :: "the process in which one uses reasoning consistently to come to a conclusion."2011-05-04: conceptual coherence :: "combining a set concepts to make sense of a situation or set of situations."2011-05-04: search :: "to look into or over carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something; to look thr"2011-05-03: nine-hole peg test :: "a timed test of fine motor coordination; the test involves the subject placing 9 dowels in 9 holes. "2011-05-03: visual masking :: "the reduction or elimination of the visibility of a brief (≤ 50 ms) stimulus, called the “target"2011-05-03: acoustic processing :: "the extraction of information from signals propagated undersea, in the atmosphere, or in the solid e"2011-05-03: anomaly detection :: "detecting patterns in a given data set that do not conform to an established normal behavior. "2011-05-03: incubation :: "(psychology) the process of thinking about a problem subconsciously while being involved in other ac"2011-05-03: bitterness :: "being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, o"2011-05-03: extrinsic motivation :: "motivated by external factors, as opposed to the internal drivers of intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic"2011-05-03: spatial ability :: "skill in perceiving the visual world, transforming and modifying initial perceptions, and mentally r"2011-05-03: illocutionary force :: "a speaker's intention in delivering an utterance."2011-05-03: elaborative rehearsal :: "a type of rehearsal proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972) in their Levels of Processing model of mem"2011-05-03: auditory localization :: "a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound."2011-05-03: instrumental learning :: "learning based on reward; a form of learning that takes place as a direct consequence of a reward or"2011-05-03: meaning :: "the thing one intends to convey especially by language; something meant or intended; significant qua"2011-04-29: subordinate :: "placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position; inferior; submissive to or controlled by au"2011-04-29: olfactory perception :: "the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemica"2011-04-29: imagery :: "an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some obj"2011-04-29: dative shift :: "a grammatical process by which an oblique argument of a verb, usually one functioning as a recipien"2011-04-29: binocular disparity :: "the difference in image location of an object seen by the left and right eyes, resulting from the ey"2011-04-29: apparent movement :: "the subjective perception of movement when in fact no physical movement is taking place."2011-04-29: simple reaction time task :: "task that assesses the ability of the subject to respond to an external cue and retrieve a reward."2011-04-29: edge detection :: "a fundamental tool in image processing and computer vision, particularly in the areas of feature det"2011-04-29: choice :: "the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them."2011-04-29: monitoring :: "to watch, keep track of, or check usually for a special purpose."2011-04-29: nondeclarative knowledge :: "The nonconscious or implicit ability to express and practice learned information."2011-04-29: top down processing :: "perceptions formed by starting with the larger concept or idea, then working down to the finer detai"2011-04-29: mental representation :: "a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image."2011-04-29: centration :: "the tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others."2011-04-29: action :: "the bringing about of an alteration by force or through a natural agency; expression by means of att"2011-04-29: introspection :: "the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a con"2011-04-29: knowledge :: "expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or pract"2011-04-29: divergent thinking :: "a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions."2011-04-29: self monitoring :: "measurement of one's own behavior."2011-04-29: effortful processing :: "learning or storing (encoding) that requires attention and effort."2011-04-29: stereotypes :: "something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; a standardized mental picture that is held in co"2011-04-29: intermediate term memory :: "a specialized term referring for information about a current task."2011-04-29: focused attention :: "the ability to respond discretely to specific visual, auditory or tactile stimuli."2011-04-29: excitement :: "the act of exciting; the state of being excited; aroused, augmented, or abnormal activity of an orga"2011-04-29: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised :: "used with adults ages 16 to 90 and measures cognitive ability using a core battery of 10 unique subt"2011-04-29: metaphor :: "a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used i"2011-04-29: visual memory :: "a part of memory preserving some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience."2011-04-29: alveolar :: "of, relating to, resembling, or having alveoli; of, relating to, or constituting the part of the jaw"2011-04-29: efficiency :: "the quality or degree of being efficient; effective operation as measured by a comparison of product"2011-04-29: movement :: "change of place or position or posture; a series of organized activities working toward an objective"2011-04-29: lying :: "marked by or containing falsehoods. a horizontal position."2011-04-29: trace conditioning :: "a form of classical conditioning in which the presentation of the conditioned stimulus and the uncon"2011-04-28: Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence :: "a standard instrument for assessing the intensity of physical addiction to nicotine."2011-04-28: Test of Word Reading Efficiency :: "a nationally normed measure of word reading accuracy and fluency that provides an efficient means of"2011-04-28: humiliation :: "to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes."2011-04-28: reconsolidation :: "the process of previously consolidated memories being recalled and actively consolidated, it is a di"2011-04-28: listening :: "to pay attention to sound; to hear something with thoughtful attention, give consideration; to be al"2011-04-28: contextual knowledge :: "information, and/or skills that have particular meaning because of the conditions that form part of "2011-04-28: spreading activation :: "a method for searching associative networks, neural networks, or semantic networks; the search proce"2011-04-28: cognitive development :: "the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, "2011-04-28: discourse :: "the capacity of orderly thought or procedure, verbal interchange of ideas; formal and orderly and us"2011-04-28: Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function :: "used for evaluating and planning treatment strategies for a wide spectrum of developmental and acqui"2011-04-28: phonetics :: "the system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages; the study and systematic classifica"2011-04-28: happiness :: "a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy."2011-04-28: concept :: "a cognitive unit of meaning—an abstract idea or a mental symbol sometimes defined as a "unit"2011-04-28: Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Questionnaire :: "instrument used to measure trait (chronic) anxiety, a general propensity to be anxious, and state (t"2011-04-28: motor program :: "a distinctive, stereotyped pattern of movement carried out by most healthy members of a species; suc"2011-04-28: form perception :: "the sensory discrimination of a pattern, shape or outline."2011-04-28: humor :: "the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement."2011-04-28: inductive inference :: "theory of prediction based on observations."2011-04-28: adaptation :: "adjustment to environmental conditions; adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of s"2011-04-28: visual attention :: "two-stage process in which attention is distributed uniformly over the external visual scene and pro"2011-04-28: coreference :: "a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one "2011-04-28: backward masking :: "a phenomenon wherein presenting one stimulus (a "mask" or "masking stimulus") immedi"2011-04-28: consolidation :: "the process of uniting, the quality or state of being united."2011-04-28: attention :: "the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring o"2011-04-28: competition :: "the act or process of competing; active demand by two or more organisms or kinds of organisms for so"2011-04-28: diphthong :: "a gliding monosyllabic speech sound (as the vowel combination at the end of toy) that starts at or n"2011-04-28: planning :: "the act or process of making or carrying out plans; the establishment of goals, policies, and proced"2011-04-28: primary memory :: "the temporary maintenance system for conscious processing of information."2011-04-28: Ishihara plates for color blindness :: "a test for red-green color deficiencies that consists of a number of colored plates, called Ishihara"2011-04-28: intelligence :: "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; the skilled use of reas"2011-04-28: olfaction :: "the sense of smell; the act or process of smelling."2011-04-28: instinct :: "a natural or inherent aptitude, impulse, or capacity; a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency"2011-04-28: skepticism :: "an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object"2011-04-28: long term memory :: "a system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use, items of infor"2011-04-28: Boston Naming Test :: "assesses the ability to name pictures of objects through spontaneous responses and need for various "2011-04-28: deep structure :: "The essential meaning of a sentence, without regard to the grammatical features (surface structure) "2011-04-28: semantic knowledge :: "long-established knowledge about objects, facts, and word meanings."2011-04-28: consciousness :: "the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself; the state or fact of bei"2011-04-28: sustained attention :: "the ability to maintain a consistent behavioral response during continuous and repetitive activity."2011-04-28: social intelligence :: "the ability to function successfully in interpersonal situations."2011-04-28: rule :: "a prescribed guide for conduct or action; an accepted procedure, custom, or habit; a usually valid g"2011-04-28: deception :: "an act to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission"2011-04-28: interference :: "the act or process of interfering, obstruction; the mutual effect on meeting of two wave trains (as "2011-04-28: Acupuncture Task :: "subjects are stimulated with Chinese acupuncture."2011-04-28: Braille Reading Task :: "Blind subjects read Braille words with their finger(s)."2011-04-27: Chewing/Swallowing :: "Subjects chew an oral stimulus that is not food (e.g., gum) or swallow their own saliva. If the ora"2011-04-27: Fixation Task :: "Subjects fixate on a visual target."2011-04-27: Counting/Calculation :: "Subjects count, add, subtract, multiply, or divide various stimuli (numbers, bars, dots, etc)."2011-04-27: Cued Explicit Recognition :: "Subjects view a list of items (words, pictures, sounds, or abstract patterns) prior to scanning. Du"2011-04-27: Deception Task :: "Subjects are asked to perform a task and either lie or be truthful in their responses."2011-04-27: Drawing :: "Subjects draw lines, circles, or drawings using a pen or stylus."2011-04-27: Eating/Drinking :: "Subjects eat food (e.g., chocolate) or drink liquids (e.g., juice)."2011-04-27: Episodic Recall :: "Subjects recall items from episodic memory (autobiographical history, long-term event memories). Th"2011-04-27: Face Monitor/Discrimination :: "Subjects are presented with human faces and are instructed to view them passively or discriminate ac"2011-04-27: Film Viewing :: "Subjects view movie or film clips passively or are required to make a discrimination when the clip i"2011-04-27: Finger Tapping Task :: "Subjects tap their fingers according to a visual, auditory, or no cue."2011-04-27: Flashing Checkerboard :: "Subjects view a flashing checkerboard."2011-04-27: Flexion/Extension :: "Subjects move (flex and extend) their hands, arms, legs, feet, lips, tongue, etc."2011-04-27: Free Word List Recall :: "Subjects view a list of words and after a delay are asked to freely recall the words presented."2011-04-27: Grasping Task :: "Subjects grasped or gripped a presented stimulus with their hand or mimicked grasping one that was n"2011-04-27: Imagined Movement :: "Subjects imagine performing some movement (e.g., finger tapping, reaching)."2011-04-27: Non-Painful Thermal Stimulation :: "Subjects experience thermal stimulation (heat) at a non-painful threshold."2011-04-27: Non-Painful Electrical Stimulation :: "Subjects are electrically stimulated at a non-painful threshold."2011-04-27: Olfactory Monitor/Discrimination :: "Subjects are presented with odors and are instructed to smell them passively or to discriminate acco"2011-04-27: Orthographic Discrimination :: "Subjects view letters and discriminate according to some feature (uppercase/lowercase, alphabetic or"2011-04-27: Paired Associate Recall :: "Subjects are shown paired stimuli prior to the task. During the task, subjects are shown a single s"2011-04-27: Imagined Objects/Scenes :: "Subject generate vivid images of objects, places, concepts, hypothetical events (not in their past),"2011-04-27: Isometric Force :: "Subjects use their hands or fingers to apply isometric force or complete a precision grip task."2011-04-27: Mental Rotation Task :: "Subjects view rotated letters, numbers, or objects (2D or 3D) and indicate if they are in their norm"2011-04-27: Passive Listening :: "Subjects listen to various auditory stimuli and make no response. Stimuli include speech (words, se"2011-04-27: Passive Viewing :: "Subjects view various visual stimuli and make no response. Stimuli include houses, faces, objects, "2011-04-27: Pointing :: "Subjects look and point at a target (e.g., cursor with their arm, hand, finger, or shoulder."2011-04-27: Music Comprehension/Production :: "Subjects listen to music passively or are asked to sing overtly."2011-04-27: Naming (Covert) :: "Subjects view objects (pictures, line drawings, etc.) and name them silently."2011-04-26: Reading (Overt) :: "Subjects view words, pseudo-words, Asian characters, phrases, or sentences and read them aloud."2011-04-26: Recitation/Repetition (Covert) :: "Subjects silently repeat or recite phonemes, words, or well-known text (nursery rhymes, Pledge of Al"2011-04-26: Recitation/Repetition (Overt) :: "Subjects repeat or recite phonemes, words, or well-known text (nursery rhymes, Pledge of Allegiance,"2011-04-26: Sequence Recall/Learning :: "Subjects learn and/or perform a complex sequence of finger tapping, button pressing, pointing/clicki"2011-04-26: Spatial/Location Discrimination :: "Subjects view shapes or other stimuli (letters, pictures, numbers, or arrows) and discriminate accor"2011-04-26: Subjective Emotional Picture Discrimination :: "Subjects view pictures and are instructed to respond to emotional pictures, to indicate which pictur"2011-04-26: Syntactic Discrimination :: "Subjects viewed grammatically correct and incorrect sentences and discriminate according to their gr"2011-04-26: Tactile Monitor/Discrimination :: "Subjects experience tactile/somatosensory stimulation and are asked to attend passively or discrimin"2011-04-26: Vibrotactile Monitor/Discrimination :: "Subjects experience vibrotactile stimulation to the hand, finger, arm, toe, or lip."2011-04-26: Video Games :: "Subjects play video games."2011-04-26: Visual Distractor/Visual Attention :: "This category is a catch-all for visuoattention paradigms. Examples include: subjects press a butt"2011-04-26: Whistling :: "Subjects whistle."2011-04-26: Word Stem Completion (Covert) :: "Subjects view word stems and silently generate a word that completes the stem."2011-04-19: Writing Task :: "Subjects write letters or words with a pen, stylus, or their finger."2011-04-19: misattribution :: "attributing an event to something with which it has no connection or association."2011-04-19: phonation :: "process by which the vocal folds produce certain sounds through quasi-periodic vibration; any oscill"2011-04-19: figure ground segregation :: "Discriminating objects from their surroundings by the visual system."2011-04-19: Birmingham Object Recognition Battery :: "a set of standardized procedures for assessing neuropsychological disorders of visual object recogni"2011-04-19: linguistic competence :: "a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language."2011-04-19: crosstalk :: "biology: the phenomenon that signal components in signal transduction can be shared between differe"2011-04-19: error trapping :: "procedures that detect and correct errors before the errors cause further confusion."2011-04-19: activation :: "bio-chemical sciences: the process whereby something is prepared or excited for a subsequent reactio"2011-04-19: category fluency test :: "a psychological test in which participants have to say as many words as possible from a category in "2011-04-19: supervisory attentional system :: "a loosely defined collection of brain processes that are responsible for planning, cognitive flexibi"2011-04-19: language acquisition :: "the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand an"2011-04-19: language learning :: "the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand an"2011-04-19: preattentive processing :: "background activity that necessarily precedes conscious mental activity; major purpose is the prepar"2011-04-19: phonological buffer :: "a passive storage device that is part of the articulatory rehearsal loop; serves as a part of the me"2011-04-19: chromatic contrast :: "When a small patch is surrounded by a color field, the patch appears to be tinted in the opponent co"2011-04-19: hedonism :: "a school which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good, often used as a justification for ev"2011-04-19: lexical access :: "the process by which contact is made with the lexicon on the basis of an initial acoustic-phonetic o"2011-04-19: auditory lexical access :: "The process by which the basic sound-meaning connections of language, i.e., lexical entries, are act"2011-04-19: creative thinking :: "the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzi"2011-04-19: auditory coding :: "processing and encoding of sound, words, and all other auditory input for storage and later retrieva"2011-04-19: episodic learning :: "a change in behavior that occurs as a result of an event; episodic learning is so named because even"2011-04-19: episodic memory :: "memory of autobiographical events (times, places, associated emotions, and other contextual knowledg"2011-04-19: source memory :: "the episodic source from which a specific item was acquired (e.g., from a person, a book, or televis"2011-04-19: spatial cognition :: "the acquisition, organization, utilization, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments."2011-04-19: binocular convergence :: "when you look at an object that is closer than approximately 25 feet, your eyes must converge on the"2011-04-19: Posner cueing task :: "Subjects view two stimuli (boxes, letters, etc.) and are cued by an arrow to attend to one of the st"2011-04-19: Simon task :: "Subjects view arrows presented in the right or left visual field that were pointing to the left or r"2011-04-19: Word generation task :: "Covert: Semantic: subjects listen to or view nouns and silently generate an associated verb, or subj"2011-04-19: continuous recognition paradigm :: "In the continuous recognition paradigm, study and test phases are not separate entities, but rather,"2011-04-19: Risky Gains task :: "Subjects are presented with a sequence of three numbers in ascending order (20, 40, and 80). Each n"2010-09-09: Encoding Task :: "Subjects view stimuli (words, pictures, letters) and are instructed to memorize them."2010-04-29: mental arithmetic :: "mathematical calculations done mentally, without writing them down."2010-04-29: cueing :: "to give/present a stimulus that prompts a reaction."2010-04-29: Benton Facial Recognition Test :: "A tool used to assess deficits in facial recognition."2010-03-25: Forward digit span task :: "A method of short-term memory measurement in which a person listens to someone say a series of singl"2010-03-23: motor sequence learning :: "Serial movement or physical action in a particular order in which a person acquires new skills or kn"2010-03-23: habit learning :: "Gaining knowledge or skill through repetitious behavior."2010-03-11: proper noun :: "A subject that usually indicates a particular person, place, or object."2010-03-11: perceptual skill :: "The ability to observe and understand the events surrounding an individual."
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