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  2. Cognitive categorization - Wikipedia

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    Categorization is a type of cognition involving conceptual differentiation between characteristics of conscious experience, such as objects, events, or ideas.It involves the abstraction and differentiation of aspects of experience by sorting and distinguishing between groupings, through classification or typification [1] [2] on the basis of traits, features, similarities or other criteria that ...

  3. Psychological intervention - Wikipedia

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    A wide range of intervention strategies exist and they are directed towards various types of issues. Most generally, it means any activities used to modify behavior, emotional state, or feelings. [ citation needed ] Psychological interventions have many different applications and the most common use is for the treatment of mental disorders ...

  4. Concept learning - Wikipedia

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    Concept learning, also known as category learning, concept attainment, and concept formation, is defined by Bruner, Goodnow, & Austin (1956) as "the search for and testing of attributes that can be used to distinguish exemplars from non exemplars of various categories".

  5. Cognitive strategy - Wikipedia

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    There are numerous different ways (i.e., different strategies) by which one can get the sum of two one-digit numbers, for example 3+4 (=7). The way that most adults would solve this problem is by simply remembering the answer (a "memory" strategy), but a toddler would probably use one of a number of different finger-counting strategies. [2]

  6. Heuristic (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Heuristics (from Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω, heurískō, "I find, discover") is the process by which humans use mental shortcuts to arrive at decisions. Heuristics are simple strategies that humans, animals, [1] [2] [3] organizations, [4] and even machines [5] use to quickly form judgments, make decisions, and find solutions to complex problems.

  7. Rehearsal (educational psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Elaboration strategies include paraphrasing or summarizing the material to be learned, creating analogies, generative note-taking (where the student actually reorganizes and connects ideas in their notes in contrast to passive, linear note-taking), explaining the ideas in the material to be learned to someone else, and question asking and ...

  8. Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Pragmatic classification (and functional [39] and teleological classification) is the classification of items which emphasis the goals, purposes, consequences, [40] interests, values and politics of classification. It is, for example, classifying animals into wild animals, pests, domesticated animals and pets.

  9. Classification - Wikipedia

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    Classification is a part of many different kinds of activities and is studied from many different points of view including medicine, philosophy, law, anthropology, biology, taxonomy, cognition, communications, knowledge organization, psychology, statistics, machine learning, economics and mathematics.