Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- examination
- a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)
- regression coefficient
- when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line
- tetrachoric correlation
- a correlation coefficient computed for two normally distributed variables that are both expressed as a dichotomy
- Huygens' principle of superposition
- the displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point
- somatosense
- any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
- revivalism
- an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith
- quadrivium
- (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
- Weber-Fechner law
- (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber
- ANOVA
- a statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means; a statistical method that yields values that can be tested to determine whether a significant relation exists between variables
- reactivity
- responsive to stimulation
- semicoma
- a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli
- perspective
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- shape constancy
- the tendency to perceive the shape of a rigid object as constant despite differences in the viewing angle (and consequent differences in the shape of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
- functionalism
- any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose
- portraying
- a representation by picture or portraiture
- predetermination
- a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something
- linguistic geography
- the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features
- proficiency
- skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity
- Apollo program
- a program of space flights undertaken by US to land a man on the Moon
- rocketry
- the branch of engineering science that studies rocket design and operation
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