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  2. OpenStax - Wikipedia

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    OpenStax textbooks follow a traditional peer review process aimed at ensuring they meet a high quality standard before publication. Textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators in an attempt to ensure they are readable and accurate, meet the scope and sequence requirements of each course, are supported by instructor ancillaries, and are available with the latest technology-based ...

  3. Limbic system - Wikipedia

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    The monkeys would respond, as if required to, to every stimulus (i.e. Hypermetamorphosis (psychology)). [ 29 ] The monkeys exhibited hypersexuality , demonstrating a sexual drive so strong that they would continuously stimulate their genitalia, copulate repeatedly and for long periods of time, and sometimes sustain small injuries in the process ...

  4. Open textbook - Wikipedia

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    An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.

  5. OpenStax CNX - Wikipedia

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    Connexions, later known as OpenStax CNX [1] was a global repository of educational content provided by volunteers. The open source platform was provided and maintained by OpenStax, which is based at Rice University. The collection was available free of charge, can be remixed and edited, and was available for download in various digital formats. [2]

  6. List of psychological schools - Wikipedia

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    The list below includes these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology: Activity-oriented approach; Analytical psychology; Anomalistic psychology

  7. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    The initial model was advanced in 1958 by Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal, research psychologists at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, but failed to reach scholars and scientists until the 1980s. In 1990, J.M. Digman advanced his five-factor model of personality, which Lewis Goldberg put at the highest organised level. [15]

  8. Gate control theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory offered a physiological explanation for the previously observed effect of psychology on pain perception. [10] In 1968, three years after the introduction of the gate control theory, Ronald Melzack concluded that pain is a multidimensional complex with numerous sensory, affective, cognitive, and evaluative components.

  9. Situated cognition - Wikipedia

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    While situated cognition gained recognition in the field of educational psychology in the late twentieth century, [3] it shares many principles with older fields such as critical theory, [4] [5] anthropology (Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger, 1991), philosophy (Martin Heidegger, 1968), critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1989), and sociolinguistics theories (Bakhtin, 1981) that rejected the ...