NEURAL SUBSTRATE
one of the parts of the central nervous system which regulates a specific behaviour.
NICHE PICKING
is the process of seeking out and then taking a potentially advantageous position within a company or group.
NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE
a display of intellect which doesn't neccesitate language. Non-verbal intelligence can be gauged with performance tests.
NUMERICAL COMPETENCE
the capacity retained by some animals to recognize and name the cardinal numbers correlated with varying amounts of items and…
OBSERVER BIAS
an experimental bias comprised of errors by a viewer in one direction. Such a bias is frequently correlated with the…
ONE-SIDED MESSAGE
a message consisting of arguments which solely advocate one side of a problem. It is compared with a two-sided message,…
ORAL IMPREGNATION
fertilization which is said, with some degree of uncertainty, to arise by oral instead of genital contact.
ORGANISMIC VARIABLE
one of the four aspects referenced in behavioral evaluation using the SORC system, referring to the physiological and psychological aspects…
OSMOMETRIC THIRST
thirst stemming from a loss of cellular fluids and a general escalation in osmotic pressure. Commonly referred to as intracellular…
PARADOXICAL THINKING
cognition characterized by contradiction of common logical procedures. Even though this form of thinking can be correlated with skewed thought…
PARTICIPANT MODELING
cultivated by Albert Bandura, a process for modifying behavior wherein sufficient types of behavior are designed for someone and then…
PATTERN RECOGNITION
1. the capacity to identify and acknowledge an involved whole containing, or embedded in, multiple independent components. Trend recognition isn't…
PERCEPTUAL CYCLE HYPOTHESIS
the theory that cognition impacts perceptual exploration but is thereby changed by real-world encounters, cultivating a cycle of attention, cognition,…
PERIPHERAL ROUTE TO PERSUASION
the procedure wherein outlooks are cultivated or altered as a result of utilizing peripheral cues instead of cautiously examining and…
PHANTOM-LOVER SYNDROME
a kind of erotic delusion exaggerated around an individual who doesn't really exist.
PHOTOPIGMENT
noun. a substance in a retinal rod or retinal cone which interacts with light to initiate a chemical cascade resulting…
PLACE LEARNING
1. the learning of physical positions or locations of objectives. 2. with regard to conditioning, learning a correlation between a…
DEGRADED STIMULUS
A stimulus, visual or auditory that has had a noise added to it that makes it harder to percieve.