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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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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Functional fixation
Functional fixation is the tendency to see objects, methods or resources only through the prism of their typical use.
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GABA
GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system that reduces the excitability of nerve cells.
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Generalization
Generalization is the transfer of a reaction, conclusion or pattern from one situation to other, similar situations.
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Generativity
Generativity is the need to create, support and pass on something of value to next people or the future.
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Gentleness towards yourself
Self-gentleness is a way of treating yourself with kindness and responsibility in times of error, tension, or suffering.
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Geography of the problem
Problem geography is the practical term for mapping where a problem occurs, who it affects, what surrounds it, and where…
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Gestalt
Gestalt is an approach that emphasizes that humans perceive phenomena as wholes, not merely the sum of separate parts.
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Global thinking
Global thinking means looking at the situation from the perspective of the whole, interdependencies and long-term consequences.
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Goal orientation
Goal orientation is a way of organizing attention, decisions, and effort around a clearly defined outcome or direction.
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Grounding
Grounding is a technique of restoring attention to the current moment, body and surroundings, especially when feeling tense, anxious or…
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Growth mindset
Growth mindset is the belief that abilities and competencies can be developed through learning, effort, strategies and feedback.
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