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  2. Perceptual learning - Wikipedia

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    A variety of skills were upgraded in video game players, including "improved hand-eye coordination, [67] increased processing in the periphery, [68] enhanced mental rotation skills, [69] greater divided attention abilities, [70] and faster reaction times, [71] to name a few". An important characteristic is the functional increase in the size of ...

  3. Implicit learning - Wikipedia

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    Implicit learning is a strong contributor to the development of stereotypes, and it can be adapted to change stereotypes as well. [19] Implicit learning paradigms may be modified to change a variety of stereotypes one holds against others or oneself and thus can be used to reduce depression associated with prejudice (i.e., "deprejudice").

  4. Differentiated instruction - Wikipedia

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    Differentiated instruction and assessment, also known as differentiated learning or, in education, simply, differentiation, is a framework or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing all students within their diverse classroom community of learners a range of different avenues for understanding new information (often in the same classroom) in terms of: acquiring content ...

  5. Analytic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, analytic phonics is referred to as Implicit phonics because the understanding of the sound-letters connection is implied and not necessarily taught directly. [6] Analog phonics is a subset of analytic phonics that uses the onset-rhyme of many words. In the word snap, "sn" is the onset and "ap" is the rime (the part starting with the ...

  6. Implicit cognition - Wikipedia

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    An example of implicit cognition could be when a person first learns to ride a bike: at first they are aware that they are learning the required skills. After having stopped for many years, when the person starts to ride the bike again they do not have to relearn the motor skills required, as their implicit knowledge of the motor skills [ 3 ...

  7. Procedural memory - Wikipedia

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    However, with practice, procedural knowledge develops, which operates largely outside of working memory, and thus allows for skills to be executed more automatically. [ 34 ] [ 36 ] This, of course, has a very positive effect on overall performance by freeing the mind of the need to closely monitor and attend to the more basic, mechanical skills ...

  8. Pattern recognition (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition is a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. [1]Pattern recognition occurs when information from the environment is received and entered into short-term memory, causing automatic activation of a specific content of long-term memory.

  9. Implicit theories of intelligence - Wikipedia

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    An individual's motivation towards achievement is shaped by their implicit theory of intelligence (and their related implicit theories about domain-specific aptitudes) and its associated goals. J.G. Nicholls proposed two different types of goals related to achievement. Task involvement goals involve individuals aiming to improve their own ...