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GLOSSARY

The language of behavioral measurement.

A concise reference for the terms we use across the site, from fixations and saccades to predictive validity and System 2 thinking.

Behavioural Measurement terms

The behavioral measurement toolkit: how Mindmarqs captures attention, effort and micro-behavior in real time.

Behavioral assessment
Measurement of what a person actually does in a task, rather than what they report about themselves.
Eye-tracking
Technology that records where and how long someone looks, used to infer attention and decision behavior.
GazeTraQ
Mindmarqs' proprietary eye-tracking engine that captures gaze patterns without storing biometric data.
Attention allocation
How a person distributes visual focus across information sources while making a decision.
Cognitive effort
The mental work invested in a task, often reflected in pupil dilation, fixation duration, and gaze patterns.
Cognitive load
The total mental demand a task places on working memory and attention at a given moment.
Fixation
A period during which the eye remains relatively still on a point of interest, typically lasting 100 to 600 ms.
Saccade
A rapid eye movement that shifts gaze from one fixation point to another.
Micro-behavior
Small, often unconscious behaviors, such as a glance or a hesitation, that carry diagnostic signal.
Information gathering
The behavior of sampling available cues before committing to a choice.
Signal
Information that meaningfully reduces uncertainty about a decision.
Decision profile
A structured summary of how a person gathers information, weighs options, and makes choices under pressure.
Behavioral insight engine
A system that turns observed task behavior into measurable indicators of decision style, attention, and performance potential.
Real-time behavioral data
Information captured while someone is completing a task, rather than after the fact.
Assessment interaction data
Clicks, taps, timing, task choices, and similar signals captured during a test.
Derived scoring results
Outputs produced from raw behavioral data, used to summarize strengths, risks, or fit.

Assessment Science terms

The science of measuring judgment, bias and decision-making, and how validity is established.

Construct validity
The degree to which an assessment actually measures the psychological construct it claims to measure.
Predictive validity
The degree to which an assessment score predicts future on-the-job performance.
Psychometrics
The science of designing, validating, and interpreting psychological measurements.
Psychometric test
A standardized test designed to measure abilities, traits, or cognitive functions in a reliable and valid way.
Talent assessment
A structured process for evaluating skills, capabilities, and potential for a role or development path.
Self-report
Any assessment relying on what a person says about themselves, such as questionnaires, interviews, or CVs.
Judgment quality
How well a decision matches the underlying evidence, independent of the outcome.
Decision-making capacity
An individual's ability to gather, weigh, and act on information under uncertainty and time pressure.
Cognitive behavior
The relationship between thinking processes and observable actions, especially in how people process information and respond.
Cognitive behavior patterns
Observable patterns that reveal how a person thinks, processes information, and decides.
Bias susceptibility
The degree to which a person is influenced by cognitive biases when making judgments.
Unconscious bias
Automatic, unintentional preferences or judgments that can influence hiring and evaluation decisions.
Intuition bias
The tendency to rely too heavily on gut feeling rather than objective evidence when making decisions.
System 1 thinking
Fast, automatic, intuitive mental processing.
System 2 thinking
Slow, deliberate, effortful mental processing used for complex judgments.
Consistency
The degree to which someone makes stable decisions across similar situations.
Fairness across backgrounds
The assessment property of producing comparable outcomes across different education, demographic, or socioeconomic backgrounds.
Hard to game
A test characteristic meaning it is difficult to cheat, memorize, or over-prepare for in a way that distorts results.
Cognitive surrender
A tendency to give up active analysis too quickly and rely on minimal effort or defaults.
Decision making
The process of choosing among options by evaluating available information and trade-offs.

Talent & Hiring terms

How behavioral measurement fits into recruitment, development and workforce decisions.

Pre-selection
The early stage of recruitment where the candidate pool is narrowed before structured interviews.
Pre-hire assessments
Tests or exercises used before hiring to evaluate candidate fit, skills, behavior, or potential.
Workplace intelligence
An assessment approach that measures how someone behaves, reasons, and solves problems in work-like situations.
Volume hiring
A recruitment process for filling many roles quickly and efficiently, often using automation and standardized assessments.
Time-to-hire
The number of days between a job opening and an accepted offer. Behavioral pre-selection reduces it.
HR workflow
The sequence of steps and processes used by HR teams to manage recruiting, onboarding, performance, and development.
Candidate experience
The overall impression a candidate has of the hiring process, from application to final outcome.
Professional development
Activities that improve a person's skills, knowledge, and performance over time.
Stress resilience
The ability to maintain effective judgment and performance when pressure, time limits, or uncertainty increase.
Attention control
The ability to stay focused on relevant information and ignore distractions.
Impulse control
The capacity to pause before acting and resist immediate reactions.
Inhibition control
The ability to suppress an unhelpful response in favor of a better one.
Prioritization
The process of deciding which information, tasks, or cues deserve attention first.
Predictive performance
How well assessment results forecast real-world job outcomes.

Cognitive Readiness terms

How brain health, cognitive capability and human judgement create value for people, organisations and economies.

Brain Capital
The combined value of brain health, cognitive skills, emotional wellbeing and human capability that enables individuals, organisations and economies to perform, innovate and adapt.
Brain Economy
An economic model that recognises brain health and cognitive capability as essential drivers of productivity, innovation and long-term prosperity.
Brain-Positive Environment
A workplace or organisational environment intentionally designed to support cognitive performance, learning, wellbeing and effective decision-making.
Collective Intelligence
The ability of groups, organisations or societies to solve complex problems by combining the knowledge, judgement and capabilities of many individuals.
Cognitive Flourishing
A state in which individuals consistently demonstrate strong judgement, learning, creativity, resilience and overall cognitive wellbeing.
Cognitive Infrastructure
The systems, environments and institutions that enable people to develop, maintain and apply their cognitive capabilities effectively.
Cognitive Readiness
The ability to think clearly, adapt quickly and make sound decisions in complex, uncertain and rapidly changing environments.
Cognitive Resilience
The ability to maintain effective thinking, judgement and decision-making under pressure, uncertainty, stress or cognitive overload.
Decision Density
The frequency, complexity and cognitive demand of decisions required within a given period of time, particularly in information-rich or AI-assisted environments.
Human Amplification
The use of artificial intelligence and technology to enhance rather than replace human judgement, creativity, collaboration and decision-making.
Polycrisis
A situation in which multiple interconnected crises interact and reinforce one another, creating complex challenges that cannot be solved independently.
Polytunity
The transformation of interconnected crises into interconnected opportunities through innovation, collaboration and investment in human capability.
Systems Thinking
The ability to understand how interconnected people, processes and systems influence one another when analysing problems and making decisions.
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