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prosodic unit
segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
situated cognition
theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts
extended mind thesis
hypothesis of debated testability, curriculum: active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes
sense of agency
subjective awareness of initiating, executing, and controlling one's own volitional actions
role-taking theory
social-psychological concept
quantum cognition
application of quantum mechanics to cognitive phenomena
unconscious inference
involuntary aspect of visual perception
distributed cognition
psychologic theory
spatial ability
capacity to understand, reason, and remember the spatial relations among objects or space
psychic apparatus
mental structures and mechanisms of the psyche
motor imagery
Mental process in which one rehearses a given action
number sense in animals
ability of creatures to represent and discriminate quantities of relative sizes by number sense
metaemotion
Meta-emotion is "an organized and structured set of emotions and cognitions about the emotions, both one's own emotions and the emotions of others". This broad definition of meta-emotion sparked psychologists' interest in the topic, particularly regarding parental meta-emotion philosophy.
Perceptual Load Theory
psychological theory of attention
narrative inquiry
discipline within qualitative research
Spatial-numerical association of response codes
behavior informatics
research method
Language and Communication Technologies
synthetic thinking
form of thinking that uses the function of a phenomenon within a larger system to explain it
Dissociation
neuropsychology term
computational cognition
study of the computational basis of learning and inference
digital infinity
the idea that that all human languages follow a simple logical principle, according to which a limited set of digits (irreducible atomic sound elements) combine to form infinitely many expressions
automaticity
thumb|upright=1.3|Driving in certain conditions may trigger 'highway hypnosis' in some people, which is an example of automaticity. Those who experience highway hypnosis often drive for long distances, responding to external events in the correct and safe manner, but have no memory of the time spent under highway hypnosis as a result. In the field of psychology, automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. It is usually the result of learning, repetition, and practice. Exam