Synonyms to consolidate?

[KateBlackThorn]

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]

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]

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]

specific comments:
Response Inhibition = Behavioral inhibition (cognitive)

• potentially. I'll discuss with our inhibition expert

Appetite = eating = eating/drinking

• I disagree on this. as @vsoch mentioned, eating behavior is definitely separable from appetite. and one can also imagine different types of appetite (e.g. "appetite for destruction")

Self Control = Response Inhibition

• definitely disagree on this. response inhibition is a subcomponent of self control for sure, but there are also other components (e.g. patience)

Imagination = mental imagery

• disagree, as @vsoch says one can imagine other times of imagination that are not visual.

[KateBlackThorn]

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]

Looping in Patrick here for his thoughts...

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