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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 response1)
Bartlett effect
Cognition
  • in psychology, the process by which one recognizes and understands things
Comprehension
  • an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something2)
Discrimination learning theory
  • a theory of the process by which animals or people learn to respond differently to different stimuli
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
Gestalt
  • a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described just as a sum of its parts
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
Journal
  • a scholarly periodical containing original research articles aimed at researchers or specialists
Magazine
  • a periodical aimed at the general public, which contains news, opinion and personal narratives
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
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
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
Theory
  • one or more ideas that explain how or why something happens
  • the set of general principles that a particular subject is based on
Transfer of practice
  • (or transfer of learning) a term coined by Thorndike and Woodworth3), referring to the generalization of knowledge and transfer of it from one context to another
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