Aufgabe

n. a predisposition toward particular mental operations inherent in the nature of a task or conveyed by the instructions for performing it. Introduced by the Würzburg school in their introspective experiments on mental processes, the concept became a precursor to the later determining tendency and the modern mental set. [German: “assignment”]

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October 18th 2024

time out (TO)

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