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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Irritation
Irritation is a state of slight or increasing irritation, often signaling overload, boundary violation, or need frustration.
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Isolation of affect
Affect isolation is a defense mechanism that involves separating the emotional charge from a thought, memory, or description of an…
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Iteration
Iteration is a repeating cycle of action, evaluation and improvement leading to an increasingly better version of the solution.
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Journaling
Journaling is the regular recording of thoughts, emotions and experiences in order to organize experiences, observations and conclusions.
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Jungian archetypes
Jungian archetypes are symbolic patterns and images that, according to Jung, organize part of mental and cultural experiences.
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Justification
Justification is an explanation of why a particular decision, judgment, or action makes sense based on facts, values, or criteria.
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Labeling emotions
Labeling emotions involves naming an experienced state, which can help regulate arousal and increase self-awareness.
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Lateral thinking
Lateral thinking is looking for a solution by changing perspective, breaking obvious assumptions and using unusual associations.
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Lateralization
Lateralization is the partial specialization of the brain hemispheres in specific functions, e.g. language, motor or spatial.
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Learned helplessness
Learned helplessness is a state in which, after repeated experiences of lack of influence, a person stops trying to act,…
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Learned helplessness
Learned helplessness is a state in which, after experiencing a lack of influence, a person stops trying to act, even…
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Learning
Learning is the process by which experience, practice or information leads to a relatively lasting change in knowledge, behavior or…
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Learning curve
A learning curve is a description of how the level of performance or proficiency changes with practice and time.
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Learning through experience
Experiential learning is learning through action, reflection, drawing conclusions and testing them in subsequent situations.
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Leverage point
A leverage point is a place in a system where a relatively small change can have a large effect throughout…
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Limbic system
The limbic system is a set of brain structures related to, among others, with emotions, motivation, memory and survival responses.
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Limbic system
The limbic system is a group of related brain structures involved in, among others: in emotions, motivation, behavior, smell and…
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Limiting beliefs
Limiting beliefs are fixed judgments that narrow the vision of possibilities and weaken action even though they are not fully…
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Logotherapy
Logotherapy is Viktor Frankl's psychotherapeutic approach in which the search for meaning plays a central role.
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Loneliness
Loneliness is the subjective feeling of lacking sufficiently close, meaningful or supportive contact with others.
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Loss aversion
Loss aversion is the tendency to feel the pain of loss more strongly than the satisfaction of a comparable gain.
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Loss of control
Loss of control is a state in which a person experiences limited influence over their own emotions, impulses, behavior or…
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Low sense of agency
A low sense of agency is the belief that one's own actions have little impact on the outcome or change…
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Loyalty to the scheme
Pattern loyalty is the tendency to repeat a known pattern of thought or action, even when it brings costs.
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Making it real
Making it real means reducing thoughts, fears and plans to facts, limitations, resources and specific actions.
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Me observing
The observing self is a perspective from which a person can notice thoughts, emotions, and roles without fully identifying with…
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Me real
The real self is the way a person perceives his or her current features, capabilities, limitations and behaviors.
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Meditation
Meditation is a group of practices that focus attention and integrate the mind and body to increase presence, regulation and…
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Memory
Memory is the ability to encode, store and retrieve information and experiences.
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Memory coding
Memory encoding is the transformation of information into a form that can be stored and later retrieved.
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