inhibition
/ˌɪnəˈbɪʃən/
suppressing irrelevant information or prepotent responses
inhibition in a sentence
“Cognitive inhibition prevents us from blurting out inappropriate thoughts.”
Origin of inhibition
Latin inhibere (to hold back)
Related Words
metacognition
thinking about one's own thinking; awareness of cognitive processes
attention
the cognitive process of selectively focusing on relevant information
working memory
the system for temporarily holding and manipulating information
retrieval
accessing stored information from memory
chunking
grouping individual pieces of information into larger units
priming
exposure to one stimulus influencing response to a subsequent stimulus