Glossary P

Production blocking refers to a loss of productivity that occurs when group and procedural factors obstruct the group’s progress toward its goals, particularly when individuals in a brainstorming session are delayed in stating their ideas until they can gain the floor and when group members are distracted by others’ ideas and so generate fewer of their own.

Production deficiency is defined as children's tendency not to use spontaneously a strategy that they are capable of using when instructed; a failure to spontaneously generate and use known strategies that could improve learning and memory. In contrast with Mediational deficiency and Utilization deficiency.

Production rules refers to a hypothesized mental representation of procedural memory, which specifies a goal to be achieved, one or more conditions that must be true in order for the rule to be applied, and one or more actions that result from the application of the rule.

Production system refers to an ordered set of productions in which execution starts at the top of a list of productions, continues until a condition is satisfied, and then returns to the top of the list to start anew

Productive language a language that which the individual is capable of expressing or producing in his/her own speech. Moreover, Productive language refers to the language a child can actually produce, or speak. In contrast with Receptive language.

Productive thinking is thinking that involves insights that go beyond the bounds of existing associations. According to Wertheimer, Productive thinking is the type of thinking that ponders principles rather than isolated facts and that aims at understanding the solutions to problems rather than memorizing a certain problem-solving strategy or logical rules.

Productivity may be defined as the ability of language users to combine language symbols in new and creative ways. It is the fact that speakers can combine a finite set of words to produce an infinite set of sentences. Moreover, Productivity is the ability of language to produce new signals to represent new ideas.

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Deutsch: Produktivität oder Generativität der Sprache / Español: Productividad o Generatividad del lenguaje / Português: Produtividade ou Generatividade da linguagem / Français: Productivité ou Générativité du langage / Italiano: Produttività o Generatività del linguaggio /

Productivity or Generativity of language is the characteristic of all human languages by which they make use of a finite repertoire of sounds to produce a potentially infinite number of sentences.

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