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compensation effect

an increase in group performance that occurs when one or more members work harder to compensate for the real or imagined shortcomings of their fellow members. Compare Köhler effect; sucker effect.

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November 25th 2024

noetic

noetic

adj. describing a state of knowledge or memory in which there is awareness of the known or remembered thing but not of one’s personal experience in relation to that thing. Noetic consciousness is a kind of consciousness in which one is aware of facts, concepts, words, and meanings but not of any connection to one’s own experience. Compare anoetic; autonoetic. [defined by Endel Tulving]