Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- Hooke's law
- (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced
- neuropsychology
- the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes
- racism
- the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
- Kalashnikov culture
- the attitudes and behavior in a social group that resolves political disputes by force of arms
- propositional calculus
- a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them
- universal
- a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings
- sociobiology
- the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
- individualization
- discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
- computational linguistics
- the use of computers for linguistic research and applications
- Asian shamanism
- an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans
- dream
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- Fourier series
- the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions; used in the analysis of periodic functions
- patent law
- that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents
- bag of tricks
- a supply of ways of accomplishing something
- Papanicolaou test
- a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer
- exposure
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
- Judaism
- the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
- sensibility
- mental responsiveness and awareness
- memory
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
- absolute threshold
- the lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect
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