Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- single-member system
- based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district
- Neo-Lamarckism
- a modern Lamarckian theory emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in genetic changes and retaining the notion of the inheritance of acquired characters
- needle biopsy
- biopsy of deep tissue that is obtained through a hollow needle
- example
- a representative form or pattern
- telerobotics
- the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance
- waiting game
- a strategy of delay
- aftersensation
- an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased
- Wahhabism
- a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia
- pursuance
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- law of proximity
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit
- disenchantment
- freeing from false belief or illusions
- vision
- the ability to see; the visual faculty
- chaotic attractor
- an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic
- scruple
- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
- linear programming
- a mathematical technique used in economics; finds the maximum or minimum of linear functions in many variables subject to constraints
- gynecology
- the branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of women
- zero point
- the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
- divergent thinking
- thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity
- sense of responsibility
- an awareness of your obligations
- supernaturalism
- a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding
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