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allaesthesia
A disturbance of body schema in which tactile stimulation on one side of the body is perceived on the other, usually as a result of a lesion in the cerebral cortex, brainstem, or spinal cord. Also ...
attribute
A characteristic of a product or service that can be measured by a rating having only two possible states, e.g. good or bad, acceptable or not acceptable, etc. Compare variable.
body image
(body schema) the individual’s concept of the disposition of his limbs and the identity of the different parts of his body. It is a function of the association areas of the brain. See also ...
bottom-up processing
Any form of information processing that is initiated, guided, and determined by input and that proceeds in sequential stages, with each stage coming closer to a final interpretation than the last, as ...
categorization
1. Classifying things: dividing them into groups according to shared characteristics and labelling these. Taxonomy is the name given to the activity of systematic categorization (e.g. taxonomies of ...
causal schema
A concept introduced in 1958 by the Austrian-born US psychologist Fritz Heider (1896–1988) to denote a conceptual organization of a sequence of events in which some are identified as causes and ...
cognition
Cognitive processes are those responsible for knowledge and awareness. They include the processing of experience, perception, and memory, as well as overtly verbal thinking.
comprehension
1. Broadly, the mental processes involved in making sense of any communication.2. (literal comprehension) Ascribing plausible meanings to message elements and understanding their denotation. See also ...
constructive memory
The production of memories under the influence of prior experience and expectations in such a way that existing schemas or new information affect how the information is stored in memory. See also ...
constructivism
Many cognitive psychologists now believe that humans learn most effectively where new information can be assimilated with previously held knowledge. This philosophy of learning is known as ...
context
1. Most broadly, any frame of reference or framework within which something is perceived, produced, consumed, communicated, interpreted, or otherwise experienced, or which is seen as relevant to the ...
déjà vu
A vivid psychic experience in which immediately contemporary events seem to be a repetition of previous happenings. It is a symptom of some forms of epilepsy. See also jamais vu.
far transfer
A form of transfer of learning that occurs when a performer acquires general skills that can be used later in more specific situations. See also schema.
forgetting
The process by which memories are lost. See decay theory, memory, proactive interference, retroactive interference.
frame
See also framing.1. A physical structure within which a painting, drawing, or photograph is formally displayed: see also landscape format; portrait format.2. A printed border around material on a ...
framing
See also frame.1. Putting a border (or frame) around an image (or text) to mark its boundaries and to establish some degree of conceptual autonomy from its current context. The metaphor of framing in ...
heuristic play
Heuristic learning encompasses the notion of exploratory play which is self‐directed by the infant and young child. Eleanor Goldschmied uses the specific term ‘heuristic play with objects’ to explore ...
implied reader
In Iser's phenomenological theory of reader-response, a hypothetical ‘role’ or ‘model’ of someone assumed by the author to share the knowledge necessary in order to fully understand the text, as ...
indirect perception
An approach to perception associated with psychologists Gregory and Rock, in which it is conceptualized as a very active cognitive process of meaning-making (see also constructivism). The emphasis is ...
information
Data that have been transformed through analysis and interpretation into a form which is useful for drawing conclusions and making decisions. See also management information.
