noëgenesis

n. the production of new knowledge from sensory or cognitive experience. There are three laws of noëgenesis: (a) the apprehension of experience (by which new stimuli are encoded), (b) the eduction of relations (by which the nature of relations between stimuli is inferred), and (c) the eduction of correlates (by which a relation previously inferred is applied in a new context). [proposed in 1923 by Charles Spearman] —noëgenetic adj.

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December 23rd 2024

IAAP

abbreviation for International Association of Applied Psychology.