Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- geochemistry
- the chemistry of the earth's crust
- coefficient of correlation
- a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)
- folklore
- the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture
- creed
- any system of principles or beliefs
- sleeping
- the state of being asleep
- stupefaction
- marginal consciousness
- retrospect
- contemplation of things past
- Archimedes' principle
- (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid
- suggestion
- an idea that is suggested
- promotion system
- a system for advancing participants to higher-status positions
- counter conditioning
- conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus
- methodological analysis
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline
- killer
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- cytogenetics
- the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes)
- assimilation
- the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
- tactics
- the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy
- memory image
- a mental image of something previously experienced
- mind's eye
- the imaging of remembered or invented scenes
- closed book
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- ideological barrier
- a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies
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