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reorganization principle

the principle deriving from Gestalt psychology that new learning or perception disrupts old cognitive structures, requiring a reorganized structure. This is in opposition to the associationist principle that new learning is essentially added on to existing structures (see associationism).

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double helix

double helix

see DNA.