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MENTAL STRUCTURE [1 record]

Record 1 2024-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Schemata can assimilate one another to form further schemata and thus structures can be common to many "higher-level" structures. The combination of mental structures may produce new ways of thinking and behaving and this theory enables explanations of insight and invention to be suggested.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
  • Comportement humain
DEF

Orientation d'ensemble dominant une personnalité.

CONT

Psychologie de l'apprentissage : connaissance partielle et auto-évaluation, structures mentales, représentations, styles cognitifs, méthodes de travail, prise de décision.

Spanish

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