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Synonyms to consolidate? #4

Open KateBlackThorn opened 7 years ago

KateBlackThorn commented 7 years ago

I found a few things that appear to be synonyms (and therefore maybe should be consolidated under one concept?): Response Inhibition = Behavioral inhibition (cognitive) Appetite = eating = eating/drinking Self Control = Response Inhibition

KateBlackThorn commented 7 years ago

Here is another: Imagination = mental imagery, eventhough currently mental imagery is ‘part of’ imagination, the definition makes them sound like synonyms. People who are participating in imagination are participating in mental imagery and vice versa. When is that not true?

vsoch commented 7 years ago

Does imagination have to be visual or involve images? If imagination is:

the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.

then I think it would be very easy to participate in imagination without mental imagery. If mental imagery is some simple process of viewing and then replicating ("seeing") a red square in your head, some might even argue it lacks imagination because it's just a mental representation of a real world item.

I think appetite and eating are different too. Appetite can be a state ("Wow, look at that appetite! You must be hungry!") or a more enduring trait ("That Henry, he has quite the appetite."). Eating is more a physical action of shoveling food in mouth. A person could be eating that doesn't have an appetite. Foie gras, anyone?

poldrack commented 7 years ago

specific comments: Response Inhibition = Behavioral inhibition (cognitive)

Appetite = eating = eating/drinking

Self Control = Response Inhibition

Imagination = mental imagery

KateBlackThorn commented 7 years ago

Hi @poldrack and @vsoch , Thank you for the clarifications. Those are super helpful and they make sense. Can we add the relationship, then, that 'Response inhibition' is part of 'Self Control'? Or would you say it is a 'kind of' Self Control (like 'emotional regulation' is)? Also, as an example item: ATQ_53- "I often have trouble resisting my cravings for food, drink, etc." Would you code this to a measure of 'response inhibition' or 'self control'? I had coded it to response inhibition as it specifically speaks to restricting one's behavior. Where as 'self control' is less specific to an external behavior (hence it also encompasses internal emotional regulation). What do you all think?

poldrack commented 7 years ago

Looping in Patrick here for his thoughts...

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