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  2. Cognitive psychology - Wikipedia

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    The main focus of cognitive psychologists is on the mental processes that affect behavior. Those processes include, but are not limited to, the following three stages of memory: [citation needed] Sensory memory storage: holds sensory information

  3. Task-based language learning - Wikipedia

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    According to Rod Ellis, a task has four main characteristics: [5] A task involves a primary focus on (pragmatic) meaning. A task has some kind of ‘gap’. (Prabhu identified the three main types as information gap, reasoning gap, and opinion gap.) The participants choose the linguistic resources needed to complete the task.

  4. Cognitive shifting - Wikipedia

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    In the general framework of cognitive therapy and awareness management, cognitive shifting refers to the conscious choice to take charge of one's mental habits—and redirect one's focus of attention in helpful, more successful directions. In the term's specific usage in corporate awareness methodology, cognitive shifting is a performance ...

  5. Porter's generic strategies - Wikipedia

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    The focus strategy has two variants, cost focus and differentiation focus, so it is possible to see the concept in terms of four distinct strategies. A company chooses to pursue one of two types of competitive advantage, either via lower costs than its competition or by differentiating itself along dimensions valued by customers to command a ...

  6. Bloom's taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Bloom's taxonomy is a source of inspiration for educational philosophy and for developing new teaching strategies, particularly in light of trends in developing global focus on multiple literacies and modalities in learning and the emerging field of integrated disciplines. [24]

  7. Topic and comment - Wikipedia

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    In an ordinary English clause, the subject is normally the same as the topic/theme (example 1), even in the passive voice (where the subject is a patient, not an agent: example 2): The dog bit the little girl. The little girl was bitten by the dog. These clauses have different topics: the first is about the dog, and the second about the little ...

  8. Focus (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus is expressed prosodically by a pitch accent on "Bill" which identifies him as the only person whom Mary insulted.

  9. Executive dysfunction - Wikipedia

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    The main focus of research in the 2000s had been on working memory, planning, set shifting, inhibition, and fluency. This research suggests that differences exist between typically functioning, matched controls and clinical groups, on measures of executive functioning. [60]