Encyclopedia Development
Your personal tool for organizing concepts and mechanisms from development and psychology. We skip academic formulas in favor of clear definitions, cognitive biases, and self-reflection questions that help you name your states precisely.
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Facilitation
Facilitation is supporting the work or conversation process so that the people involved can more easily achieve their goals without…
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Facts
Facts are established or justifiable elements of reality that are distinguished from opinions, interpretations and assessments.
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Factuality
Factuality is the acknowledgment of the specific conditions in which one already finds oneself: history, constraints, situations, body, relationships and…
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Fake problem
A false problem is a situation described as a problem that is actually a symptom, a false frame, or a…
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False consensus
False consensus is the tendency to overestimate how many people share our beliefs, choices, or ways of acting.
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False urgency
False urgency is the feeling that something requires an immediate response, even though its importance or real consequences are less…
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Fear
Fear is an emotion triggered by a perceived threat that prepares the body to protect, flee, fight, or freeze.
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Fear of being judged
Fear of judgment is the fear that others will negatively judge our behavior, appearance, competences or emotions.
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Fear of change
Fear of change is the tension associated with the loss of predictability, control or the current way of functioning.
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Feedback
Feedback is information about an action, result or behavior that helps to correct further actions.
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Feedback
Feedback is a message about the consequences of an action that helps correct a behavior, decision or process.
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Feedback culture
A feedback culture is an environment in which feedback is regular, specific, safe and learning-oriented.
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Feedback signal
Feedback is information about the effect of an action that helps assess progress, correct course, and improve behavior or solution.
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Feedback unit
A unit of feedback is a single, specific piece of feedback about a behavior, effect, or criterion, rather than the…
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Feeling empowered
The sense of agency is the subjective feeling that one's own actions influence events and their consequences.
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Feeling in control
Locus of control is the belief to what extent one's own actions can influence the course of events and outcomes.
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Feelings
Feelings are consciously experienced aspects of emotions, moods, or internal states.
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Fixation
Consolidation is the process of strengthening a memory trace, habit, skill or pattern through repetition, meaning and feedback.
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Fixed mindset
A fixed mindset is the belief that abilities and characteristics are largely fixed, so that a mistake is perceived as…
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Fixing
Determining is the process of giving a clear framework to an issue: purpose, scope, criteria, principles, deadline or responsibility.
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Flow
Flow is a state of deep engagement in an activity in which attention, skill and challenge combine into fluid concentration.
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Flow
Flow is a state of deep engagement in an activity in which the challenge is well matched to the skill.
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Focalization of attention
Focalization of attention is directing attention to a selected object, stimulus or aspect of experience while pushing other elements to…
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Focus
Focus is the directing of attention to a selected object, goal or task while limiting competing stimuli.
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Focusing
Focus is the ability to maintain attention on a selected object, task or goal despite competing stimuli.
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Formulating hypotheses
Formulating hypotheses is creating testable assumptions that explain a problem or predict a possible outcome.
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Framing
Framing is a way of presenting information that influences its interpretation, emotional reception and decisions.
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Freshness effect
The recency effect is the tendency to remember or weigh information that appears most recently more strongly.
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Frustration
Frustration is a state of tension that occurs when an important need, goal, or expectation encounters an obstacle.
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Functional behavior analysis
Functional behavior analysis is the study of what circumstances precede behavior, what it looks like, and what consequences maintain it.
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