The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill o…
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Mental process
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
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The act or process of acquiring.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; conten…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.knowledge that is available to anyone
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.of Learn
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that wo…
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the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event; "he basked in the afterglow of his victory"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.(psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.(psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.(Psychology) a school of thought postulating that the personality of an individual is dependent on the type of their physique (somatot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.State of being external; exteriority
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.(psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.a steroid hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex of animals; affects functioning of gonads and has anti-inflammatory activity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychology, performance, some, composite, cognitive.In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of…
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