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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Episodic memory
Episodic memory is the memory of specific events and personal experiences embedded in time and context.
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Escape
Flight is a response to move away from threat, discomfort, or overload, which may be physical, emotional, or cognitive.
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Escapism
Escapism is escapism in activities, fantasies or stimuli that temporarily distract us from difficult reality.
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Eudaimonia
Eudaimonia is the concept of well-being understood as a meaningful, valuable and developing life, not just a momentary pleasure.
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Eustress
Eustress is stress perceived as a mobilizing challenge that can support action, learning and development.
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Evaluation
Evaluation is the systematic assessment of an activity, program or decision based on criteria, data and lessons for improvement.
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Excess stimuli
Overstimulation is a condition in which the amount of information, sounds, tasks or signals exceeds the current ability to calmly…
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Excessive control
Excessive control is a rigid need to regulate situations, emotions or other people beyond the real need and ability to…
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Executive activities
Executive functions are cognitive processes that help you plan, inhibit impulses, switch attention, and achieve goals.
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Executive center
The executive center is a colloquial term for brain networks that support planning, impulse control, attention and decision-making.
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Executive control
Executive control is the ability to direct attention, inhibit impulses, switch strategies, and maintain action in line with a goal.
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Executive functions
Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes that help you plan, inhibit impulses, switch attention, remember a goal, and…
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Explicit memory
Explicit memory is the memory of consciously available facts and events that can be recalled and described in words.
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Exploration
Exploration is the active examination of opportunities, information, and experiences before choosing a direction or strategy.
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Exposure
Exposure is controlled and gradual contact with a stimulus that a person avoids in order to reduce the fear or…
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Exposure effect
The exposure effect is the tendency to like stimuli we encounter more often.
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External motivation
Extrinsic motivation is action driven by reward, punishment, evaluation, pressure or expectations from the environment.
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Externalizing the problem
Problem externalization is a way of thinking and talking in which the problem is separated from the person's identity.
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Extrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation is an action undertaken because of a reward, punishment, evaluation, pressure or other factor external to the activity…
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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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