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  2. Self-directedness - Wikipedia

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    Self-directedness. Self-directedness is a personality trait held by someone with characteristic self-determination, that is, the ability to regulate and adapt behavior to the demands of a situation in order to achieve personally chosen goals and values. [1]

  3. Critical thinking - Wikipedia

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    Critical thinking. Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation. [1] The application of critical thinking includes self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self- corrective ...

  4. Self-referential humor - Wikipedia

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    Self-referential humor, also known as self-reflexive humor, self-aware humor, or meta humor, is a type of comedic expression that—either directed toward some other subject, or openly directed toward itself—is self-referential in some way, intentionally alluding to the very person who is expressing the humor in a comedic fashion, or to some specific aspect of that same comedic expression.

  5. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).

  6. Andragogy - Wikipedia

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    Andragogy commonly is defined as the art or science of teaching adults or helping adults learn. In contrast to pedagogy, or the teaching of children, andragogy is based on a humanistic conception of self-directed and autonomous learners where teachers are defined as facilitators of learning. Although Malcolm Knowles proposed andragogy as a ...

  7. Self-reflection - Wikipedia

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    Self-reflection is the ability to witness and evaluate our own cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes. In psychology , other terms used for this self-observation include 'reflective awareness', and 'reflective consciousness', which originate from the work of William James .

  8. Self-determination theory - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Self-determination theory ( SDT) is a macro theory of human motivation and personality that concerns people's innate growth tendencies and innate psychological needs. It pertains to the motivation behind people's choices in the absence of external influences and distractions. SDT focuses on the degree to which human behavior is self ...

  9. Glossary of graph theory - Wikipedia

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    1. A book, book graph, or triangular book is a complete tripartite graph K1,1,n; a collection of n triangles joined at a shared edge. 2. Another type of graph, also called a book, or a quadrilateral book, is a collection of 4 -cycles joined at a shared edge; the Cartesian product of a star with an edge. 3.