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  2. Child development - Wikipedia

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    Child development. A child using fingers to make a small, circular hole in the sand, 1997. Child development involves the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence . Childhood is divided into three stages of life which include early childhood, middle childhood, and ...

  3. Long-term potentiation - Wikipedia

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    Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a persistent increase in synaptic strength following high-frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse. Studies of LTP are often carried out in slices of the hippocampus, an important organ for learning and memory. In such studies, electrical recordings are made from cells and plotted in a graph such as this one.

  4. Interference theory - Wikipedia

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    The interference theory is a theory regarding human memory. Interference occurs in learning. The notion is that memories encoded in long-term memory (LTM) are forgotten and cannot be retrieved into short-term memory (STM) because either memory could interfere with the other. [1] There is an immense number of encoded memories within the storage ...

  5. Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, a dual process theory provides an account of how thought can arise in two different ways, or as a result of two different processes. Often, the two processes consist of an implicit (automatic), unconscious process and an explicit (controlled), conscious process. Verbalized explicit processes or attitudes and actions may change ...

  6. The Persistence of Memory - Wikipedia

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    The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador DalĂ­ and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.

  7. Damasio's theory of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    This theory emphasizes the importance of the body and its physiological processes in the emergence of consciousness. Damasio's three layered theory is based on a hierarchy of stages, with each stage building upon the last. The most basic representation of the organism is referred to as the Protoself, Core Consciousness, and Extended Consciousness.

  8. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - Wikipedia

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    Later research on short-term memory and working memory revealed that memory span is not a constant even when measured in a number of chunks. The number of chunks a human can recall immediately after presentation depends on the category of chunks used (e.g., span is around seven for digits, around six for letters, and around five for words), and even on features of the chunks within a category.

  9. Water memory - Wikipedia

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    Water memory is the purported ability of water to retain a memory of substances previously dissolved in it even after an arbitrary number of serial dilutions.It has been claimed to be a mechanism by which homeopathic remedies work, even when they are diluted to the point that no molecule of the original substance remains, but there is no theory for it.