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  2. Persistence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    These findings have, therefore, been applied to the clinical field, providing a foundation for the development of psychiatric techniques designed to increase persistent tendencies such as motivation, perseverance and discipline, which some individuals may have difficulty with. Researchers investigated two types of action for improving persistence:

  3. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.

  4. Perseveration - Wikipedia

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    Perseveration is a common feature of frontal lobe syndrome, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome and chronic acetogenin poisoning. [8] Perseveration may also refer to the obsessive and highly selective interests of individuals on the autism spectrum.

  5. Perseverative cognition - Wikipedia

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    The definition of perseverative cognition is: "the repeated or chronic activation of the cognitive representation of one or more psychological stressors". [ 2 ] [ 8 ] Worry , rumination and all other forms of thoughts ( cognition ), about stressful events that have happened or might happen, fall under the definition of perseverative cognition.

  6. Belief perseverance - Wikipedia

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    Students often "cling to ideas that form part of their world view even when confronted by information that does not coincide with this view." [ 28 ] For example, students may spend months studying the solar system and do well on related tests, but still believe that moon phases are produced by Earth's shadow.

  7. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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    Simple sentences in the Reed–Kellogg system are diagrammed according to these forms: The diagram of a simple sentence begins with a horizontal line called the base.The subject is written on the left, the predicate on the right, separated by a vertical bar that extends through the base.

  8. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic ... The man who the boy who the students recognized pointed out is a ...

  9. Persistence (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    The term "persistent" was first introduced by Atkinson and Morrison [1] in the sense of orthogonal persistence: they used an adjective rather than a verb to emphasize persistence as a property of the data, as distinct from an imperative action performed by a program. The use of the transitive verb "persist" (describing an action performed by a ...