Glossary E

Glossary E

Explanation refer to statements that make a set of events intelligible.

Explanatory adequacy is defined as the extent to which a grammar can explain the facts of language acquisition. Please see also Descriptive adequacy and Observational adequacy.

Explanatory style refers to how people explain the events of their lives. There are three facets of how people can explain a situation that can lean toward optimism or pessimism:

In the psychology context, an explicit attitude refers to the attitudes and beliefs that individuals are consciously aware of and can report or express directly. These attitudes are deliberative, can be verbally communicated, and are often based on personal experience and knowledge. Explicit attitudes are subject to self-monitoring and social desirability, meaning that individuals might sometimes alter the expression of these attitudes to align with social norms or expectations.

Deutsch: Explizite Einstellungen / Español: Actitudes Explícitas / Português: Atitudes Explícitas / Français: Attitudes Explicites / Italiano: Atteggiamenti Espliciti /

Explicit attitudes is defined as the consciously accessible attitudes that can be misrepresented by self-report; evaluations that people can report consciously controlled and conscious evaluative responses.

Explicit cognition refers to thinking and thought processes of which humans are consciously aware.

Explicit knowledge refers to knowledge of how to perform various acts. (See Tacit knowledge)

Explicit memory refers to the deliberate recall of information that one recognizes as a memory, detectable by direct testing such as asking a person to describe a past event.