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attending, attention
the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
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inattention
lack of attention
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intuition
instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
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perception
the process of perceiving
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apperception
the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
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believing
the cognitive process that leads to convictions
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categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
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discrimination, secernment
the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished
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acquisition, learning
the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
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memory, remembering
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
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representational process
any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
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coordination
being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree
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attentiveness, heed, paying attention, regard
paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
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clock-watching
paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)
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ear
attention to what is said
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eye
attention to what is seen
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notice, observance, observation
the act of noticing or paying attention
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notice
polite or favorable attention
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heedlessness, inattentiveness
a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
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distraction
an obstacle to attention
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disregard, neglect
lack of attention and due care
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feeling, intuitive feeling
an intuitive understanding of something
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gnosis
intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics
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insight, sixth sense
grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
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immediacy, immediate apprehension
immediate intuitive awareness
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constancy, perceptual constancy
(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
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detection, sensing
the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
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beholding, seeing, visual perception
perception by means of the eyes
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auditory perception, sound perception
the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon
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aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
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somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia
the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
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feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
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doublethink
believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
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appraisal, assessment
the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
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ascription, attribution
assigning to a cause or source
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ascription, attribution
assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
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cross-classification, cross-division
classification according to more than one attribute at the same time
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subsumption
incorporating something under a more general category
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differentiation, distinction
a discrimination between things as different and distinct
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individualisation, individualization, individuation
discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
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appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste
delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
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conditioning
a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment
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developmental learning
learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development
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digestion
learning and coming to understand ideas and information
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education
the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
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incorporation, internalisation, internalization
learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself
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imprinting
a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
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language learning
learning to use a language
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committal to memory, memorisation, memorization
learning so as to be able to remember verbatim
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study, work
applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
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carry-over, transfer, transfer of training
application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
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STM, immediate memory, short-term memory
what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
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working memory
memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking
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LTM, long-term memory
your general store of remembered information
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retrieval
the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
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recall, recollection, reminiscence
the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
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identification, recognition
the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
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association, connection, connexion
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
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retrospection
memory for experiences that are past
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symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization
something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
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exemplification, typification
a representational or typifying form or model
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depicting, depiction, portrayal, portraying
a representation by picture or portraiture
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anthropomorphism, theanthropism
the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits
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imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery
the ability to form mental images of things or events
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inspiration
a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem