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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Determination
Determination is a permanent readiness to act in a chosen direction despite obstacles, fatigue and a temporary loss of motivation.
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Diagnosis of the situation
Situation diagnosis is a structured identification of facts, context, causes and possible courses of action.
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Direction of action
A direction of action is a consciously defined turn of activity: where the effort is heading and why it is…
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Discipline
Discipline is the ability to repeat important actions despite changing motivation, mood and momentary impulses.
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Discomfort
Discomfort is an unpleasant state of tension, discomfort, or resistance that signals difficulty, change, or an unmet need.
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Disinhibition
Disinhibition is the weakening of control over an impulse, emotion or behavior, which makes the reaction appear faster and less…
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Dissociation
Dissociation is the experience of disconnection from oneself, emotions, body, memory, or environment.
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Divergent thinking
Divergent thinking is the ability to generate many different ideas, solutions, or interpretations rather than one obvious answer.
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Divergent thinking
Divergent thinking is generating many possible ideas, directions, or solutions rather than quickly narrowing down your choices.
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Dopamine
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in, among others: in motivation, learning by reward, movement and predicting the value of events.
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Dream
Sleep is a biological state of regeneration that supports cognitive function, emotions, metabolism, immunity and overall health.
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Dreams
Dreams are images of a desired future that can inspire a course of action, but they do not themselves replace…
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Dunning-Kruger effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the tendency of people with low competences in a given field to overestimate their own skills.
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Ego
Ego is a concept that describes the sense of self and, in psychoanalysis, the part of the personality that mediates…
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Ego depletion
Ego depletion is the hypothesis that prior self-control effort may temporarily impair subsequent behavioral control.
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Eisenhower matrix
The Eisenhower Matrix is a tool for prioritizing tasks according to two dimensions: importance and urgency.
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Embodiment
Embodiment is an approach in which the experience of the body, movement, senses and physiological state co-create the way of…
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Emotion processing
Emotion processing is recognizing, experiencing, understanding, and integrating emotions in a way that supports adaptive action.
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Emotional agility
Emotional agility is the ability to notice emotions, name them and choose action consistent with values rather than an automatic…
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Emotional buffer
An emotional buffer is a resource or condition that mitigates the impact of stress and difficult emotions on functioning.
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Emotional capacity
Emotional capacity is the ability to feel, recognize, and regulate emotions without losing connection with oneself, others, and the task…
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Emotional hunger
Emotional hunger is a felt need for relief, closeness or solace, which is easily confused with physiological hunger.
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Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is a set of abilities related to recognizing, understanding, expressing and regulating one's own and other people's emotions.
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Emotional maturity
Emotional maturity is the ability to recognize, regulate and express emotions responsibly towards oneself and others.
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Emotional pain
Emotional pain is subjective psychological suffering associated with loss, rejection, anxiety, shame, loneliness, or the violation of important needs.
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Emotional tension
Emotional tension is a state of increased mental and physiological arousal associated with difficult emotions or stress.
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Emotional tuning
Emotional attunement is noticing and adequately responding to the other person's emotional state.
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Emotions
Emotions are complex responses that include experience, the body, assessment of the significance of a situation, and readiness to act.
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Empathy
Empathy is the ability to understand or empathize with another person's condition while remaining aware that it is their experience.
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Energy management
Energy management is planning activities taking into account changing levels of physical, cognitive and emotional forces.
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