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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Objective
A goal is a consciously defined result to which you direct your attention, energy and action.
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Observation
Observation is consciously noticing facts, signals and changes without immediately jumping to a conclusion or reaction.
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Observation without judgment
Observing without judgment is noticing experiences for what they are, without immediately labeling them as good, bad, or intolerable.
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One-off change
A single change is the intentional correction of one selected element of a behavior, system or habit rather than a…
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Openness to experience
Openness to experience is a personality dimension related to curiosity, imagination, tolerance of new things and readiness to contact with…
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Optimization
Optimization is consciously improving the performance of a system, process or strategy in relation to specific criteria.
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Option generation
Option generation is the problem-solving step of generating many possible courses of action before selecting the best one.
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Organization of attention
Organizing attention is the conscious directing of attentional resources to selected stimuli, tasks and goals, rather than allowing the environment…
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Over-analyzing
Overanalysis is the repeated consideration of options, risks and scenarios without proceeding to a decision or test.
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