Mental Processes
Categorical breakdown of terms falling inder the category of Mental Processes. Sub categories will become more specific in nature to the terms listed for Mental Processes.
Sub-Categories
Terms
Afterimage - Continuation of visual impression after cessation of stimuli causing the original image....
Association - A functional relationship between psychological phenomena of such nature that the presence of one te...
Association Learning - The principle that items experienced together enter into a connection, so that one tends to reinstat...
Attentional Blink - Temporary visual deficit or impaired visual processing occurring in a rapid serial visual presentati...
Auditory Fatigue - Loss of sensitivity to sounds as a result of auditory stimulation, manifesting as a temporary shift ...
Auditory Perception - The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized, and interpreted by the organism....
Auditory Threshold - The audibility limit of discriminating sound intensity and pitch....
Auditory Threshold - The audibility limit of discriminating sound intensity and pitch....
Automatism - Automatic, mechanical, and apparently undirected behavior which is outside of conscious control....
Avoidance Learning - A response to a cue that is instrumental in avoiding a noxious experience....
Awareness - The act of "taking account" of an object or state of affairs. It does not imply assessment of nor at...
Beauty - Characteristics or attributes of persons or things which elicit pleasurable feelings....
Body Image - Individuals' personal concept of their bodies as objects in and bound by space, independently and ap...
Career Choice - Selection of a type of occupation or profession....
Choice Behavior - The act of making a selection among two or more alternatives, usually after a period of deliberation...
Cognition - Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism becomes aware of or obtains knowledge....
Cognitive Dissonance - Motivational state produced by inconsistencies between simultaneously held cognitions or between a c...
Color Perception - Mental processing of chromatic signals (COLOR VISION) from the eye by the VISUAL CORTEX where they a...
Comprehension - The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding. (American Heritage...
Concept Formation - A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, as...
Conditioning (Psychology) - A general term referring to the learning of some particular response....
Conditioning, Classical - Learning that takes place when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus....
Conditioning, Eyelid - Reflex closure of the eyelid occurring as a result of classical conditioning....
Conditioning, Operant - Learning situations in which the sequence responses of the subject are instrumental in producing rei...
Consciousness - Sense of awareness of self and of the environment....
Consensus - General agreement or collective opinion; the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned....
Contrast Sensitivity - The ability to detect sharp boundaries (stimuli) and to detect slight changes in luminance at region...
Contrast Sensitivity - The ability to detect sharp boundaries (stimuli) and to detect slight changes in luminance at region...
Creativeness - The ability to construct new ideas or images....
Critical Period (Psychology) - A specific stage in animal and human development during which certain types of behavior normally are...
Cues - Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a ...
Decision Making - The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternat...
Deja Vu - A subjective feeling that an experience which is occurring for the first time has been experienced b...
Depth Perception - Perception of three-dimensionality....
Depth Perception - Perception of three-dimensionality....
Differential Threshold - The smallest difference which can be discriminated between two stimuli or one which is barely above ...
Differential Threshold - The smallest difference which can be discriminated between two stimuli or one which is barely above ...
Discrimination (Psychology) - Differential response to different stimuli....
Discrimination Learning - Learning that is manifested in the ability to respond differentially to various stimuli....
Dissent and Disputes - Differences of opinion or disagreements that may arise, for example, between health professionals an...
Distance Perception - The act of knowing or the recognition of a distance by recollective thought, or by means of a sensor...
Distance Perception - The act of knowing or the recognition of a distance by recollective thought, or by means of a sensor...
Dreams - A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usua...
Eidetic Imagery - A visual image which is recalled in accurate detail. It is a sort of projection of an image on a men...
Esthetics - The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful. It includes beauty, esthetic expe...
Executive Function - A set of cognitive functions that controls complex, goal-directed thought and behavior. Executive fu...
Extinction, Psychological - The procedure of presenting the conditioned stimulus without REINFORCEMENT to an organism previously...
Fantasy - An imagined sequence of events or mental images, e.g., daydreams....
Field Dependence-Independence - The ability to respond to segments of the perceptual experience rather than to the whole....
Field Dependence-Independence - The ability to respond to segments of the perceptual experience rather than to the whole....
Figural Aftereffect - A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in one part of the ...
Flicker Fusion - The point or frequency at which all flicker of an intermittent light stimulus disappears....
Form Perception - The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline....
Form Perception - The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline....
Generalization (Psychology) - The phenomenon of an organism's responding to all situations similar to one in which it has been con...
Generalization, Response - The principle that after an organism learns to respond in a particular manner to a stimulus, that st...
Generalization, Stimulus - The tendency to react to stimuli that are different from, but somewhat similar to, the stimulus used...
Habituation, Psychophysiologic - The disappearance of responsiveness to a repeated stimulation. It does not include drug habituation....
Helplessness, Learned - Learned expectation that one's responses are independent of reward and, hence, do not predict or con...
Higher Nervous Activity - A term used in Eastern European research literature on brain and behavior physiology for cortical fu...
Illusions - The misinterpretation of a real external, sensory experience....
Imagination - A new pattern of perceptual or ideational material derived from past experience....
Imprinting (Psychology) - A particular kind of learning characterized by occurrence in very early life, rapidity of acquisitio...
Inhibition (Psychology) - The interference with or prevention of a behavioral or verbal response even though the stimulus for ...
Intention - What a person has in mind to do or bring about....
Intuition - Knowing or understanding without conscious use of reasoning. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1994)...
Judgment - The process of discovering or asserting an objective or intrinsic relation between two objects or co...
Knowledge of Results (Psychology) - A principle that learning is facilitated when the learner receives immediate evaluation of learning ...
Learning - Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The conce...
Loudness Perception - The perceived attribute of a sound which corresponds to the physical attribute of intensity....
Maze Learning - Learning the correct route through a maze to obtain reinforcement. It is used for human or animal po...
Memory - Complex mental function having four distinct phases: (1) memorizing or learning, (2) retention, (3) ...
Memory, Short-Term - Temporary storage of information for a few seconds to hours, as opposed to long-term memory which re...
Mental Processes - Conceptual functions or thinking in all its forms....
Mental Recall - The process whereby a representation of past experience is elicited....
Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics) - The relation between the mind and the body in a religious, social, spiritual, behavioral, and metaph...
Motion Perception - The real or apparent movement of objects through the visual field....
Negotiating - The process of bargaining in order to arrive at an agreement or compromise on a matter of importance...
Neurolinguistic Programming - A set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience. Techniques ar...
Olfactory Perception - The process by which the nature and meaning of olfactory stimuli, such as odors, are recognized and ...
Optical Illusions - An illusion of vision usually affecting spatial relations....
Overlearning - Learning in which practice proceeds beyond the point where the act can just be performed with the re...
Pain Threshold - Amount of stimulation required before the sensation of pain is experienced....
Paired-Associate Learning - Learning in which the subject must respond with one word or syllable when presented with another wor...
Pattern Recognition, Physiological - The analysis of a critical number of sensory stimuli or facts (the pattern) by physiological process...
Pattern Recognition, Visual - Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, sh...
Pattern Recognition, Visual - Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, sh...
Pattern Recognition, Visual - Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, sh...
Perception - The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted....
Perceptual Closure - The tendency to perceive an incomplete pattern or object as complete or whole. This includes the Ges...
Perceptual Distortion - Lack of correspondence between the way a stimulus is commonly perceived and the way an individual pe...
Perceptual Masking - The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptu...
Perceptual Masking - The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptu...
Pitch Discrimination - The ability to differentiate tones....
Pitch Perception - A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus....
Practice (Psychology) - Performance of an act one or more times, with a view to its fixation or improvement; any performance...
Proactive Inhibition - The state or process hypothesized to account for poorer learning rate for elements later in a series...
Probability Learning - Usually refers to the use of mathematical models in the prediction of learning to perform tasks base...
Problem Solving - A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to ...
Problem Solving - A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to ...
Problem-Based Learning - Instructional use of examples or cases to teach using problem-solving skills and critical thinking....
Punishment - The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting un...
Reactive Inhibition - Tendency toward a lessened strength of response due to practice or activity. It is independent of th...
Recognition (Psychology) - The knowledge or perception that someone or something present has been previously encountered....
Refusal to Participate - Refusal to take part in activities or procedures that are requested or expected of an individual. Th...
Reinforcement (Psychology) - The strengthening of a conditioned response....
Reinforcement Schedule - A schedule prescribing when the subject is to be reinforced or rewarded in terms of temporal interva...
Reinforcement, Social - The strengthening of a response with a social reward such as a nod of approval, a parent's love or a...
Reinforcement, Verbal - Use of word stimulus to strengthen a response during learning....
Retention (Psychology) - The persistence to perform a learned behavior (facts or experiences) after an interval has elapsed i...
Reversal Learning - Any situation where an animal or human is trained to respond differentially to two stimuli (e.g., ap...
Reward - An object or a situation that can serve to reinforce a response, to satisfy a motive, or to afford p...
Sensory Deprivation - The absence or restriction of the usual external sensory stimuli to which the individual responds....
Sensory Thresholds - The minimum amount of stimulus energy necessary to elicit a sensory response....
Serial Learning - Learning to make a series of responses in exact order....
Set (Psychology) - Readiness to think or respond in a predetermined way when confronted with a problem or stimulus situ...
Signal Detection, Psychological - Psychophysical technique that permits the estimation of the bias of the observer as well as detectab...
Signal Detection, Psychological - Psychophysical technique that permits the estimation of the bias of the observer as well as detectab...
Size Perception - The sensory interpretation of the dimensions of objects....
Size Perception - The sensory interpretation of the dimensions of objects....
Social Perception - The perceiving of attributes, characteristics, and behaviors of one's associates or social groups....
Sound Localization - Ability to determine the specific location of a sound source....
Space Perception - The awareness of the spatial properties of objects; includes physical space....
Space Perception - The awareness of the spatial properties of objects; includes physical space....
Speech Perception - The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequ...
Stereognosis - Perception of shape and form of objects by TOUCH, via tactile stimuli....
Stereognosis - Perception of shape and form of objects by TOUCH, via tactile stimuli....
Subliminal Stimulation - Stimulation at an intensity below that where a differentiated response can be elicited....
Taste Perception - The process by which the nature and meaning of gustatory stimuli are recognized and interpreted by t...
Taste Threshold - The minimum concentration at which taste sensitivity to a particular substance or food can be percei...
Theory of Mind - The ability to attribute mental states (e.g., beliefs, desires, feelings, intentions, thoughts, etc....
Thinking - Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or s...
Time Perception - The ability to estimate periods of time lapsed or duration of time....
Token Economy - A practice whereby tokens representing money, toys, candy, etc., are given as secondary reinforcers ...
Touch Perception - The process by which the nature and meaning of tactile stimuli are recognized and interpreted by the...
Transfer (Psychology) - Change in learning in one situation due to prior learning in another situation. The transfer can be ...
Uncertainty - The condition in which reasonable knowledge regarding risks, benefits, or the future is not availabl...
Verbal Learning - Learning to respond verbally to a verbal stimulus cue....
Vision Disparity - The difference between two images on the retina when looking at a visual stimulus. This occurs since...
Vision, Binocular - The blending of separate images seen by each eye into one composite image....
Vision, Monocular - Images seen by one eye....
Visual Acuity - Clarity or sharpness of OCULAR VISION or the ability of the eye to see fine details. Visual acuity d...
Visual Fields - The total area or space visible in a person's peripheral vision with the eye looking straightforward...
Visual Perception - The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience....
Volition - Voluntary activity without external compulsion....
Weight Perception - Recognition and discrimination of the heaviness of a lifted object....
Common Chronic Illnesses
Coronary Disease
An imbalance between myocardial functional requirements and the capacity of the CORONARY VESSELS to supply sufficient blood flow. It is a form of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA (insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle) caused by a decreased capacity of the coronary vessels.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
A subtype of DIABETES MELLITUS that is characterized by INSULIN deficiency. It is manifested by the sudden onset of severe HYPERGLYCEMIA, rapid progression to DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS, and DEATH unless treated with insulin. The disease may occur at any age, but is most common in childhood or adolescence.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
A subclass of DIABETES MELLITUS that is not INSULIN-responsive or dependent (NIDDM). It is characterized initially by INSULIN RESISTANCE and HYPERINSULINEMIA; and eventually by GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; and overt diabetes. Type II diabetes mellitus is no longer considered a disease exclusively found in adults. Patients seldom develop KETOSIS but often exhibit OBESITY.
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Hypertension
Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more.
Mesothelioma
A tumor derived from mesothelial tissue (peritoneum, pleura, pericardium). It appears as broad sheets of cells, with some regions containing spindle-shaped, sarcoma-like cells and other regions showing adenomatous patterns. Pleural mesotheliomas have been linked to exposure to asbestos. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Osteoarthritis
A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.
