Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- partitioning
- an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- ground
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- operative field
- the area that is open during surgery
- imponderable
- a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed
- irradiation
- (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
- Utopia
- an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- attention
- the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
- one
- a single person or thing
- molecular biology
- the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role)
- Mennonitism
- system of beliefs and practices including belief in scriptural authority; plain dress; adult baptism; foot washing; restriction of marriage to members of the group
- feeblemindedness
- severe mental deficiency
- reasoning
- thinking that is coherent and logical
- independent variable
- (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
- mysticism
- obscure or irrational thought
- belief
- any cognitive content held as true
- Roman Catholicism
- the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome
- concern
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- priestcraft
- a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs
- obiism
- belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies
- mythology
- the study of myths
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