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June 18, 2009 By Jack Nicholson

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  1. immediate apprehension
    immediate intuitive awareness
  2. immediacy
    the quickness of action or occurrence
  3. insight
    clear or deep perception of a situation
  4. intuition
    instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
  5. clock-watching
    paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)
  6. apperception
    the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
  7. doublethink
    believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
  8. representational process
    any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
  9. mind's eye
    the imaging of remembered or invented scenes
  10. retrovision
    a vision of events in the distant past
  11. exemplification
    showing by example
  12. symbolic representation
    something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
  13. discernment
    the cognitive condition of someone who understands
  14. individualization
    discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
  15. discrimination
    unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
  16. transfer of training
    application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
  17. stimulus generalization
    (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
  18. irradiation
    (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
  19. rote learning
    memorization by repetition
  20. digestion
    the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
  21. developmental learning
    learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development
  22. accommodation
    making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
  23. assimilation
    the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
  24. incorporation
    consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body
  25. vocational training
    training for a specific vocation in industry or agriculture or trade
  26. self-cultivation
    the process of educating yourself
  27. subsumption
    incorporating something under a more general category
  28. ascription
    assigning to a cause or source