Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- Gothic architecture
- a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
- genius
- a natural talent
- mental note
- special attention with intent to remember
- prescriptive linguistics
- an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics
- difficulty
- a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
- syllogism
- deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
- scalar
- a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components
- triple
- a quantity that is three times as great as another
- Poisson distribution
- a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
- bag of tricks
- a supply of ways of accomplishing something
- network topology
- the configuration of a communication network
- pteridology
- the branch of botany that studies ferns
- brightness
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- religious orientation
- an attitude toward religion or religious practices
- semantics
- the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
- Wahhabism
- a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia
- inclination
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- classical conditioning
- conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether or not the conditioned response occurs until eventually the neutral stimulus comes to evoke the reflex
- blastogenesis
- theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm
- history
- all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
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