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| - | == Affect theory == | ||
| - | * "//a branch of psychoanalysis that attempts to organize affects into discrete categories and connect each one with its typical response//"(([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_theory|Wikipedia: Affect theory. Retrieved 15. March 2011.]])) | ||
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| - | == Bartlett effect == | ||
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| - | == Cognition == | ||
| - | * in psychology, the process by which one recognizes and understands things | ||
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| - | == Comprehension == | ||
| - | * an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something((Source: [[http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=comprehension]])) | ||
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| - | == Discrimination learning theory == | ||
| - | * a theory of the process by which animals or people learn to respond differently to different stimuli | ||
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| - | == Distributed representation == | ||
| - | * connectionist principle in which meaning is not contained within a single symbolic unit, but is formed by an interaction of a set of units | ||
| - | * find out more: [[http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/distributedrepresentation.html|Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind]] | ||
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| - | == Gestalt == | ||
| - | * a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described just as a sum of its parts | ||
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| - | == Insightful learning == | ||
| - | * learning that results in perceiving the solution to a problem after a period of cognitive trial and error | ||
| - | * learner is required to have all elements of the problem available in order to be able to learn by insight | ||
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| - | == Journal == | ||
| - | * a scholarly periodical containing original research articles aimed at researchers or specialists | ||
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| - | == Magazine == | ||
| - | * a periodical aimed at the general public, which contains news, opinion and personal narratives | ||
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| - | == Paradigm == | ||
| - | * a set of ideas that are used for understanding or explaining something, especially in a particular subject | ||
| - | * a typical example or model of something | ||
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| - | == Schema == | ||
| - | * a mental framework humans use to represent and organize remembered information | ||
| - | * they enable us to recall, modify our behavior, or try to predict most likely outcomes of events | ||
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| - | == Structuralism == | ||
| - | * a theory founded by Edward Titchener in the end of 19th/beginning of 20th century | ||
| - | * focused on breaking down mental processes into simple elements | ||
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| - | == Theory == | ||
| - | * one or more ideas that explain how or why something happens | ||
| - | * the set of general principles that a particular subject is based on | ||
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| - | == Transfer of practice == | ||
| - | * (or //transfer of learning//) a term coined by Thorndike and Woodworth(([[http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thorndike/Transfer/transfer1.htm|Thorndike, E. L. and Woodworth, R. S. The influence of improvement in one mental function upon the efficiency of other functions. Psychological Review, 8, 247-261. 1901.]])), referring to the generalization of knowledge and transfer of it from one context to another | ||
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