Glossary E
Glossary E
Emergent literacy refer to the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are presumed to be developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading and writing and the environments that support these developments. They are skills and knowledge about literacy that children acquire before they learn to read, such as knowing how to hold a book and turn the pages, knowing that words and stories are contained in the print on the page, and knowing that the print on signs and labels contains information.
Emergent norm theory is defined as an explanation of collective behavior suggesting that the uniformity in behavior usually observed in collectives is caused by members’ conformity to unique normative standards that develop spontaneously in those groups.
Emergentism is defined as the contention that mental processes emerge from brain processes. The interactionist form of Emergentism claims that once mental states emerge, they can influence subsequent brain activity and thus behavior. The epiphenomenalist form claims that emergent mental states are behaviorally irrelevant. Emergentism, moreover is defined as the view that new knowledge can arise from the interaction of biologically based learning processes and input from the environment. It differs from constructivism in its explicit claim that what emerges from the process of innate structure operating on environmental input can be more than was provided in either the innate structure or the input.
Emil Kraepelin (1855-1925) was a psychiatrist who studied the description and Classification of mental disorders, leading to what we now call the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.
- Emil Kraepelin 1855-1925 : Emil Kraepelin was a psychiatrist who studied the description and classification of mental disorders, leading to what we now call the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.