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Mapping

Mapping refers to a very powerful enabling technique which allows people's own categorisations and understandings of an issue or a market to be exposed and explored. Mapping involves asking interviewees or group participants to sort or "map" objects or representations of objects according to how they are seen or thought of. In problem solving, Mapping is the set of correspondences between a source and target problem; how the two (2) problems "map" onto each other

Mapping problem

Mapping problem is the logical problem of learning word meanings that arises because an infinite number of hypotheses about word meaning may be consistent with information in the non-linguistic context of use.

Marasmus

Marasmus refers to a growth-retarding disease affecting infants who receive insufficient protein and too few calories.

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Margaret F. Washburn

Margaret F. Washburn, the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in psychology, graduated from Cornell University in 1898.

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Marginal babbling

Marginal babbling is defined as the long series of sounds that infants produce just before they begin to produce canonical babbling. Marginal babbling, which is a kind of sound production is typical around 5 and 6 months of age.

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Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) refers to an Italian educator who developed a popular method of educating young children in which students were encouraged to be self -directed in their explorations of their environments.

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Marijuana

Marijuana refers to dried part of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) which is a hallucinogen and is the most widely used illegal substance.

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Marital rape

Marital Rape refers to the rape of a person by her or his current or former spouse.

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