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  2. Prototype theory - Wikipedia

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    Prototype theory is a theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which there is a graded degree of belonging to a conceptual category, and some members are more central than others. It emerged in 1971 with the work of psychologist Eleanor Rosch, and it has been described as a ...

  3. Social judgment theory - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, Social judgment theory ( SJT) is a self-persuasion theory proposing that an individual's perception and evaluation of an idea is by comparing it with current attitudes. According to this theory, an individual weighs every new idea, comparing it with the individual's present point of view to determine where it should be ...

  4. Medium theory - Wikipedia

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    Medium theory. Medium theory is a mode of analysis that examines the ways in which particular communication media. and modalities impact the specific content (messages) they are meant to convey. It Medium theory refers to a set of approaches that can be used to convey the difference in meanings of messages depending on the channel through which ...

  5. Understanding by Design - Wikipedia

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    Understanding by Design, or UbD, is an educational theory for curriculum design of a school subject, where planners look at the desired outcomes at the end of the study in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. [1] UbD is an example of backward design, the practice of looking at the outcomes first ...

  6. Miriam Budiardjo - Wikipedia

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    Miriam Budiardjo. Miriam Budiardjo (20 November 1923, Kediri – 8 January 2007, Jakarta) was an Indonesian political scientist and diplomat. Budiardjo was Deputy Chair of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights, and she has been credited with co-founding the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Indonesia, of which she was ...

  7. Theory - Wikipedia

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    Theory. A theory is a rational type of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the results of such thinking. The process of contemplative and rational thinking is often associated with such processes as observational study or research. Theories may be scientific, belong to a non-scientific discipline, or no discipline at all.

  8. Posthumanism - Wikipedia

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    Posthumanism or post-humanism (meaning "after humanism " or "beyond humanism") is an idea in continental philosophy and critical theory responding to the presence of anthropocentrism in 21st-century thought. [1] Posthumanization comprises "those processes by which a society comes to include members other than 'natural' biological human beings ...

  9. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas - Wikipedia

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    Islamisation of knowledge. Syed Muhammad al Naquib bin Ali al-Attas ( Arabic: سيد محمد نقيب العطاس Sayyid Muḥammad Naqīb al-ʿAṭṭās; born 5 September 1931) is a Malaysian Muslim philosopher. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and studies theology ...