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  2. Metacognition - Wikipedia

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    MSK is an awareness of the type of thinking strategies being used in specific instances and it consists of the following abilities: making generalizations and drawing rules regarding a thinking strategy, naming the thinking strategy, explaining when, why and how such a thinking strategy should be used, when it should not be used, what are the ...

  3. Permanent brain - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the program guesses 25% of the opponent's moves correctly, the use of pondering is on average equivalent to increasing the normal calculating time by a factor of 1.25. In chess games between two computers, pondering makes sense only if the competing chess engines use separate processors or cores. If they share the same core, the ...

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Navel gazing - Wikipedia

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    Four statues depicting omphaloskepsis. Navel-gazing is the contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation. [1] The word omphaloskepsis derives from the Ancient Greek words ὀμφᾰλός (omphalós, lit.

  6. Critical thinking - Wikipedia

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    Critical thinking is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to make sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing underlying assumptions, providing justifications for ideas and actions, evaluating these justifications through comparisons with varying perspectives, and assessing their rationality and potential consequences. [1]

  7. Higher-order thinking - Wikipedia

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    Higher-order thinking, also known as higher order thinking skills (HOTS), [1] is a concept applied in relation to education reform and based on learning taxonomies (such as American psychologist Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy). The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others, but also have more generalized benefits.

  8. Rumination (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Rumination appears closely related to worry. Rumination is the focused attention on the symptoms of one's mental distress.In 1998, Nolen-Hoeksema proposed the Response Styles Theory, [1] [2] which is the most widely used conceptualization model of rumination.

  9. Derailment (thought disorder) - Wikipedia

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    In psychiatry, derailment (aka loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking [1]) categorises any speech comprising sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.