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Learning Styles
Essay: Learning Styles Don't Exist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| meticulous | extremely careful and precise |
| laudable | worthy of praise |
| curate | select, organize, and present e.g. information, typically using professional or expert knowledge |
| replete with | filled with |
| an endeavour | an attempt to achieve a goal |
| explicit | stated clearly and in detail |
| retrieve | bring back |
| retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage |
| contend | assert something as a position in an argument |
| perceptual | relating to the ability to interpret or become aware of something through the senses |
| sense perception | the use of our senses to acquire information about the world around us |
| olfactory | relating to the sense of smell |
| prevalent | widespread, generally accepted |
| august | having great importance and respect in society |
| cognitive science | field of study that examines how humans and other animals acquire, process, store, and retrieve information |
| intuitive appeal | evaluation of an argument based on gut feeling instead of reason |
| broad appeal | wide popularity |
| individual agency | the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices |
| retrospective | looking back at past things |
| absolution | formal release from guilt |
| paraphrase | restate in other words |
| endorse | approve, support |
| discernible | distinguishable, perceivable |
| affirm | declare to be true, confirm |
| to champion | defend or support |
| disposition | a person's inherent qualities of mind and character |
| taxonomy | the classification of something |
| progressive | favouring change or innovation |
| traction | the extent to which e.g. an idea or product gains popularity or acceptance |
| impart | pass on, transmit, bestow |
| utilitarian | designed to be useful or practical |
| burgeoning | expanding or growing rapidly |
| rote memorisation | learned from repeating and not from thinking |
| state-sanctioned | approved by the state |
| punitive | inflicting or aiming at punishment |
| eschew | avoid, shun, keep away from |
| corporal punishment | physical punishment |
| rife | abundant, prevalent |
| infringement | violation, breach |
| anathema | something that is strongly disliked |
| espouse | adopt or support an idea or cause |
| benign | kind and gentle |
| innate | inborn, natural |
| coercive methods | using force to persuade people to do things that they are unwilling to do |
| to purport | to suppose, to claim |
| empirical | based on observation or experiment |
| delineation | the action of marking the edge of something |
| retain | to hold or keep |
| retention | preservation |
| tactile | relating to the sense of touch |
| modalities of intelligence | different intellectual abilities |
| monolithic | massive and uniform |
| validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
| behemoth | something of tremendous power or size |
| postulated | suggested, proposed |
| discrete | distinct, separate |
| nebulous | vague |
| Delphic | deliberately obscure or ambiguous |
| the ring of truth | seems to be true |
| divination | foretelling the future by means of magic |
| staunch | loyal and committed in attitude |
| consistency | behaviour or treatment done in the same way over time so as to be accurate |
| efficacy | effectiveness |
| analogy | comparison |
| emblematic of | symbolic of |
| malaise | set of problems affecting a particular situation |
| faddism | a tendency to like a style, activity, or interest for a very short period of time |
| snake oil | product or policy of little real value that is promoted as the solution to a problem |
| a veneer | surface appearance |
| pseudoscientific | falsely or mistakenly claimed as being based on scientific method |
| stakeholder | a person or organization with an interest in a particular place or issue |
| self-perpetuating | the capability of something to cause itself to continue to exist |
| confirmation bias | the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories |
| robust | strong |
| cognitive | having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding |
| expenditure | the use of energy, time or other resources |
| soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
| proxy indicator | indirect evidence that serves as substitutes for direct measurements |
| rationale | fundamental reason |
| interleave | to mix by alternating between something |
| pre-emptive | action undertaken to prevent another action |
| post-hoc | occurring or done after something |
| allure | the power to attract or charm |
| commonality | a shared characteristic |
| folly | lack of good sense, foolishness |
| autodidact | self-taught person |
| ethical imperative | extremely morally necessary |
| defective | faulty |
| dereliction of duty | neglect of one's duty |
| delusion | false belief |
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