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  2. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    Cognates also do not need to look or sound similar: English father, French père, and Armenian հայր (hayr) all descend directly from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. An extreme case is Armenian երկու (erku) and English two, which descend from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁; the sound change *dw > erk in Armenian is regular.

  3. Angst - Wikipedia

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    It is pre-cognate with the Latin angustia, "tensity, tightness" and angor, "choking, clogging"; compare to the Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō) "strangle". It entered English in the 19th century as a technical term used in Psychiatry , though earlier cognates existed, such as ange .

  4. Thought - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language; all of which are used in thinking. The school of thought arising from this approach is known as cognitivism , which is interested in how people mentally represent information processing.

  5. Cognatic kinship - Wikipedia

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    Such relatives may be known as cognates. See also. Matrilineality; Patrilineality; Hapū ...

  6. Cognitive effects of bilingualism - Wikipedia

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    A bilingual individual is traditionally defined as someone who understands and produces two languages on a regular basis. [4] A bilingual individual's initial exposure to both languages may start in early childhood, e.g. before age 3, [ 5 ] but exposure may also begin later in life, in monolingual or bilingual education .

  7. Mind - Wikipedia

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    The mind is responsible for phenomena like perception, thought, feeling, and action.. The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills.The totality of mental phenomena, it includes both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances, and unconscious processes, which can influence an individual without intention or ...

  8. Kinship - Wikipedia

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    A broad definition of marriage includes those that are monogamous, polygamous, same-sex and temporary. The act of marriage usually creates normative or legal obligations between the individuals involved, and any offspring they may produce. Marriage may result, for example, in "a union between a man and a woman such that children born to the ...

  9. Cognate (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Cognate object, a verb's object that is etymologically related to the verb; Cognate (kinship), person who shares a common ancestor; Cognate linkage, a kinematic linkage that generates the same coupler curve as another linkage of a different geometry; Cognate interaction, in immunology denotes the specific, contact-dependent interaction between ...