Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- instrumental conditioning
- operant conditioning that pairs a response with a reinforcement in discrete trials; reinforcement occurs only after the response is given
- experience
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
- illusion
- an erroneous mental representation
- inspiration
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- hook
- anything that serves as an enticement
- internal medicine
- the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults)
- complexion
- a point of view or general attitude or inclination
- distrust
- doubt about someone's honesty
- straw poll
- an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue
- scratch test
- a test to determine allergic sensitivity to various substances by applying them to scratches in the skin
- continuous creation theory
- (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other
- paleornithology
- the paleobiology of birds
- earth
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- turnabout
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- quintessence
- the most typical example or representative of a type
- monic polynomial
- a polynomial in one variable
- attribution
- assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
- Eurocentrism
- belief in the preeminence of Europe and the Europeans
- visual space
- the visual perception of space
- agrology
- science of soils in relation to crops
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