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Schemes

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Piaget's term for cognitive structures that develop as infants and young children learn to interpret the world and adapt to their environment.

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Stimulus

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something that incites to action or exertion or quickens action, feeling, thought,

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Taste-aversion learning

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A biological constraint on learning in which an organism learns in one trial to avoid a food whose ingestion is followed by illness.

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Imagery

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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images

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Concepts

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Mental representations of kinds or categories of items or ideas.

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Intuition

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direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.

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Decision-making

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the process of making choices or reaching conclusions, especially on important political or business matters

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Artificial intelligence

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The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence.

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Psycholinguistics

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the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.

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Syntax

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the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language

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Semantics

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the study of meaning.

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Intelligence

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capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.

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G factor

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s a controversial construct used in the field of psychology (see also psychometrics) to quantify what is common to the scores of all intelligence tests.

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Norms

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a Norm is a formal specification of a deontic statement that aims at regulating the life of software agents and the interactions among them. It can be an obligation, a permission or a prohibition, and is often represented with some dialect or extension of the Deontic logic.

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David Wechsler

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He studied at the City College of New York and Columbia University (1925), and went on to serve as chief psychologist at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital (1932–67). He developed the Wechsler–Bellevue Intelligence Scale (1939), devised for testing adult intelligence, and later adapted for children. The tests have been widely used and periodically revised.