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Learned optimism

Learned optimism refers to Seligmann's description of a particularly effective explanatory style

Learned-helplessness orientation

Learned-helplessness orientation refers to a tendency to give up or to Stop trying after failing because these failures have been attributed to a lack of ability that one can do little about. Please see also Learned helplessness orientation.

Learner

Deutsch: Lernender, Español: Aprendiz, Português: Aprendiz, Français: Apprenant, Italiano: Colui che apprende

Learner in the psychological context refers broadly to an individual who acquires knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, or behaviors. Psychology views the learner as the active subject in the learning process, which involves cognitive, emotional, and environmental interactions. The term is central to educational and developmental psychology.

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Learner-directed curriculum

Learner-directed curriculum is one in which the learning activities emerge from individual interests and teacher guidance.

Learning

Learning refers to an enduring change in the mechanisms of behavior involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with similar stimuli and responses. Learning also refers to any relatively permanent change in behavior or behavioral potential that can be attributed to experience and practice or that results from one's experiences or practice.

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Learning and Memory

Deutsch: Lernen und Gedächtnis / Español: Aprendizaje y memoria / Português: Aprendizagem e memória / Français: Apprentissage et mémoire / Italiano: Apprendimento e memoria

Learning and memory are fundamental psychological processes that allow individuals to acquire, store, and retrieve information. Learning involves the process of acquiring new information or skills, while memory refers to the ability to store and recall that information over time.

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Learning difficulty

Learning difficulty refers to a term covering people who experience more problems than the general population with activities that involve thinking and understanding. Moreover, Learning difficulty is a term that refers to disorders that affect the ability to interpret what one sees and hears or the ability to link information from different parts of the brain, thus disrupting the processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written.

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Learning disabilities

learning disabilities refers to a general term that refers to significant problems in mastering one or more of the following skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, mathematics.

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