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  2. Thought-terminating cliché - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded definition of the term was published in Robert Jay Lifton's book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism in 1961 wherein he was describing the structure of language used by the Chinese Communist Party, defining the term as "the start and finish of any

  3. Exemplar theory - Wikipedia

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    Exemplar Theory is often contrasted with prototype theory, which proposes another method of categorization.Recently the adoption of both prototypes and exemplars based representations and categorization has been implemented in a cognitively inspired artificial system called DUAL PECCS (Dual Prototypes and Exemplars based Conceptual Categorization System) that, due to this integration, has ...

  4. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    A list of 'effects' that have been noticed in the field of psychology. [clarification needed ... Irrelevant speech effect; Kappa effect; Kewpie doll effect; Kinetic ...

  5. Irrelevant speech effect - Wikipedia

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    This occurs even if the list items are presented visually. The sounds do not need to be a language the participant understands, or even a real language; human speech sounds are sufficient to produce this effect. The theory covers speech as well as music or other background sounds.

  6. Verbal intelligence - Wikipedia

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    These mechanisms can be broken down into four major groups: speech generation (talking), speech comprehension (hearing), writing generation (writing), and writing comprehension (reading). In a practical sense, linguistic intelligence is the extent to which an individual can use language , both written and verbal, to achieve goals.

  7. Hedge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics (particularly sub-fields like applied linguistics and pragmatics), a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity, probability, caution, or indecisiveness about the remainder of the sentence, rather than full accuracy, certainty, confidence, or decisiveness. [1]

  8. Speech production - Wikipedia

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    Speech production is the process by which thoughts are translated into speech. This includes the selection of words , the organization of relevant grammatical forms, and then the articulation of the resulting sounds by the motor system using the vocal apparatus .

  9. Articulatory suppression - Wikipedia

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    Articulatory suppression is the process of inhibiting memory performance by speaking while being presented with an item to remember. Most research demonstrates articulatory suppression by requiring an individual to repeatedly say an irrelevant speech sound out loud while being presented with a list of words to recall shortly after.