| performance | The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. "Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible." (Paley) 2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character. "Her walking and other actual performances." "His musical performances." . Synonym: Completion, consummation, execution, accomplishment, achievement, production, work, act, action, deed, exploit, feat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| performance test | A test, such as five of the eleven Wechsler adult intelligence scale subtests, requiring little or no verbal instruction from the examiner and virtually no verbal response by the examinee. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cognitive | <psychology> Of, pertaining, to or characterised by cognition. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cognitive dissonance | <psychology> Motivational state produced by inconsistencies between simultaneously held cognitions or between a cognition and behaviour; e.g., smoking enjoyment and believing smoking is harmful are dissonant. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cognitive dissonance theory | <psychology> A theory of attitude formation and behaviour describing a motivational state that exists when an individual's cognitive elements (attitudes, perceived behaviours, etc.) are inconsistent with each other, such as the espousal of the Ten Commandments concurrent with the belief that it is all right to cheat on one's taxes; a test which indicates that persons try to achieve consistency (consonance) and avoid dissonance which, when it arises, may be coped with by changing one's attitudes, rationalizing, selective perception, and other means. See: balance theory, consistency principle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cognitive laterality quotient | <psychology> Test for difference in cognitive performance of left and right sides of the brain. (21 Jun 2000) |
| cognitive psychology | <study> A branch of psychology that attempts to integrate into a whole the disparate knowledge from the subfields of perception, learning, memory, intelligence, and thinking. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cognitive reappraisal | <procedure> A coping strategy in which patients are taught to monitor and evaluate negative thoughts and replace them with more positive thoughts and images. (16 Dec 1997) |
| cognitive science | The study of the precise nature of different mental tasks and the operations of the brain that enable them to be performed, engaging branches of psychology, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cognitive symptoms | <psychology> Symptoms that relate to disorders in thought processes, such as learning, comprehension, memory, reasoning, and judging. These symptoms are prominant features of Alzheimer's disease. See: cognitive symptoms. (22 May 1997) |
| cognitive therapy | A direct form of psychotherapy based on the interpretation of situations (cognitive structure of experiences) that determine how an individual feels and behaves. It is based on the premise that cognition, the process of acquiring knowledge and forming beliefs, is a primary determinant of mood and behaviour. The therapy uses behavioural and verbal techniques to identify and correct negative thinking that is at the root of the aberrant behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| high-performance liquid chromatography | <investigation> A lab technique, a type of column chromatography, which uses a combination of several separation techniques to separate substances at higher resolution. Extremely sharp peaks on the elution profile can be produced with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). (09 Oct 1997) |
| psychomotor performance | The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delirium, dementia, amnestic, cognitive disorders | Cognitive disorders including delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders. These may be the result of substance use, trauma, or other causes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Tactual Performance Test | halstead-Reitan battery |