Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- species
- a specific kind of something
- bio-assay
- appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard
- orientation
- an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
- series
- (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions
- diagonalisation
- changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal)
- atomic theory
- a theory of the structure of the atom
- beginning
- the first part or section of something
- multiple correlation
- a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables
- Presbyterianism
- the doctrines and practices of the Presbyterian Church: based in Calvinism
- personal memory
- memory for episodes in your own life
- rule
- a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
- aversive stimulus
- any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it
- navel-gazing
- literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
- Arianism
- heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son
- Utopia
- an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- principle of equivalence
- (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference
- middle distance
- the part of a scene between the foreground and the background
- Shintoism
- the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
- reconstruction
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
- tissue typing
- a series of diagnostic tests before an organ transplant to determine whether the tissues of a donor and recipient are compatible
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