GLOSSARY
Name the measure.
Cognition
Processes involved in acquiring, using and updating information. A broad term, not one directly observed intelligence number.
Recorded response
What the researcher actually measures, such as a choice, duration or latency.
Social cognition
A research area concerned with information and behavior involving other individuals. A specific cue task is not a complete assessment of it.
Discrimination learning
Learning to respond differently to stimuli under a stated arrangement.
Reversal learning
Updating a previously learned response when the relevant contingency changes.
Inhibitory control
Suppressing a response in favor of another. A task intended to measure it can also involve other influences.
Clade
A grouping based on evolutionary relatedness. A clade comparison is not identical to an individual-breed comparison.
Generalization
Applying learned information to new instances. Its scope depends on what changed in the test.
Test-retest reliability
How consistently a measure behaves across occasions. Re-exposure can also change the behavior being measured.
Non-significant result
An analysis did not provide the specified statistical evidence for a difference. This is not proof of exact equality.
Independent replication
A new investigation of a finding. A follow-up using the same original participants should not be counted as a new independent sample.
Moser et al. (2024): behavioral-testing methods review ↗Source for this explanation, not a review of Taskwise.
Junttila et al. (2022): a Finnish cognitive-task battery ↗Source for this explanation, not a review of Taskwise.
Azadian and Protopopova (2026): repeat exposure ↗Source for this explanation, not a review of Taskwise.